1. Wassim Slaiby co-founded the record label XO with Canadian singer the Weeknd in 2011, for whom he has was manager.
17 Facts About Wassim Slaiby
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Furthermore, Slaiby is the founder and CEO of Universal Arabic Music, which he launched in 2021 in partnership with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group.
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Wassim Slaiby first co-founded CP Music Group in 2002, and later joined the Maverick management consortium in 2016.
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Wassim Joseph Slaiby was born in Ghazir, Lebanon on November 16,1979.
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Wassim Slaiby's father passed away when he was ten years old.
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Wassim Slaiby escaped the Lebanese Civil War conflict and immigrated to Canada without family when he was fifteen years old.
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Wassim Slaiby initially lived in Montreal before moving to Ottawa in his late teens.
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Wassim Slaiby began his music industry career after meeting and seeing a young fellow immigrant rapper Belly freestyle rapping on an Ottawa street in 2002.
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Wassim Slaiby started managing Belly, with whom he co-founded Capital Prophets Records, which would go on to be known as the CP Music Group.
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Wassim Slaiby hired Amir "Cash" Esmailian, who was a close friend of Belly, as the head of street promotion for the label.
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In 2011, Wassim Slaiby met and began co-managing the singer the Weeknd with Esmailian, and co-founded XO Records with the artist and his creative director La Mar Taylor.
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In 2013, Wassim Slaiby added DaHeala, DannyBoyStyles, Harry Fraud and Belly as in-house producers and songwriters.
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In 2011, Wassim Slaiby founded his own artist and talent management company SALXCO, and later sold the CP Music Group to Live Nation.
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In December 2017, Wassim Slaiby joined the Lebanon-based music streaming service, Anghami, as the head of international partnerships.
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In 2019, Wassim Slaiby became an investor of the music-focused social video platform Triller.
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On May 15,2016, Wassim Slaiby married Lebanese model, philanthropist and Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih in a ceremony at The Patriarchal Edifice in Bkerke, Lebanon.
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Wassim Slaiby is a Maronite Christian and, in 2017, was invited to visit the Pope who blessed his newborn daughter.