Scott Borchetta was born on July 3,1962 and is an American record executive and founder of the Big Machine Label Group.
21 Facts About Scott Borchetta
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Scott Borchetta is a sports car racing driver in the Trans-Am Series and owner of NASCAR Xfinity Series team Big Machine Racing.
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Scott Borchetta was born in Burbank, California to parents Shari and Mike Scott Borchetta.
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Scott Borchetta grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s.
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In 1978, when Scott Borchetta was 16, his father moved to Nashville to start his own independent record promotion company.
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Interested in life beyond Los Angeles, Scott Borchetta began to pursue a career in music.
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Scott Borchetta then spent two years working as an independent promoter before working in promotion and artist development at several other record labels, including MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville and Universal Music Nashville.
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In 2005, Scott Borchetta left Universal Music Nashville to start his own independent record label, Big Machine Records.
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Scott Borchetta disagreed with how major labels run their business, and felt that he and his friend Neil Adams could run his own label more efficiently than what he had seen.
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Scott Borchetta signed his first artist, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift when she was 14 years old.
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On June 30,2019, Ithaca Holdings, run by Scooter Braun, bought Big Machine Records, with Scott Borchetta staying on as CEO.
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Swift said Scott Borchetta's loyalty was only through contracts, and that he knew "exactly what he was doing" when making this deal with Ithaca Holdings.
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Swift accused Braun and Scott Borchetta of holding her back from being able to perform her older songs during her American Music Awards for her Artist of the Decade award, as well as for her Netflix documentary, Miss Americana.
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Scott Borchetta said he forewarned Swift through text the night before.
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In February 2017, Canadian media company Bell Media announced that it had partnered with Scott Borchetta to develop a new, international television format that would "uncover, develop, and promote pop culture's next musical superstars".
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Scott Borchetta was inducted into the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Hall of Fame in 2020; his SuperTruck crew chief James Buttrey was enshrined a year later.
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In March 2021, Scott Borchetta was named executive advisor to the Hall of Fame.
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Scott Borchetta befriended NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham while filming a 2014 episode of Evernham's television series AmeriCarna, and Evernham invited him to drive a 1972 Chevrolet Corvette in the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association.
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Scott Borchetta won the SVRA Group 6 national championship in 2020.
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In June 2020, Scott Borchetta debuted in the Trans-Am Series TA2 class at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
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Big Machine Racing, a NASCAR Xfinity Series team owned by Scott Borchetta, began competition in 2021 with Jade Buford as the driver.