1. Mark Pitts is an American record executive and talent manager who has served as President of RCA Records since 2021.
19 Facts About Mark Pitts
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Mark Pitts co-founded the record label ByStorm Entertainment with Wayne Barrow in 1998, through which he has signed artists including J Cole, Miguel, Ro James, Andrea Martin, B Smyth, Mali Music and Luke Christopher, among others.
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Mark Pitts has worked with artists who have amassed a total of 53 Grammy Awards nominations, and 10 wins.
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Mark Pitts was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 4,1970.
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Mark Pitts was first introduced to music by his grandmother, a classically trained piano teacher who began giving Pitts lessons at the age of four.
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Mark Pitts spent six years of his childhood at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and later continued learning music at the High School of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied art.
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Mark Pitts intended to pitch the rap group to his friend Sean Combs who was working at Uptown Records at the time.
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Pitts opened Mark Pitts Management, took on additional artists such as Nas, and a few years later negotiated an end to the public feud between Nas and Jay-Z.
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Mark Pitts signed Chris Brown and Miguel while at Jive Records.
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In 2006, Mark Pitts was made a father for the second time, after the birth of his daughter, Jaden.
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In 2008, Mark Pitts was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, which paralyzed the left side of his face.
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In 2011, Mark Pitts was named President of Urban Music at RCA Records.
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In 2013, Mark Pitts gained major success with Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream which grabbed five Grammy Award nominations.
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Mark Pitts had shepherded Brown's Fortune, which topped the charts that year.
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Mark Pitts was instrumental in the decision to release 45 songs on the artist's last album, Heartbreak on a Full Moon, which came out November 3,2017.
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In January 2021, Mark Pitts was named President of RCA Records.
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Mark Pitts now has had two songs with the most weeks at No 1 in the chart's 28-year history, with "Go Crazy" and "No Guidance".
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Mark Pitts was featured in Crain's magazine's "40 Under 40" in 2015.
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On June 11,2018, Mark Pitts received a proclamation as an African-American power influencer from New York City Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus overseen by the city's mayor Bill de Blasio.