Leila Oliveira is being promoted to the position of President of Warner Music Brazil, efficient October 28.
She’s going to step up into the position to succeed Sérgio Affonso, who has been President of Warner Music Brazil for greater than 15 years and is leaving on the finish of October to launch his personal unbiased label, which will probably be distributed by Warner Music.
Oliveira will proceed to be primarily based at Warner Music Brazil’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro and can report back to Alejandro Duque, President, Warner Music Latin America.
She has served as Normal Supervisor of Warner Music Brazil, overseeing the corporate’s A&R, advertising and marketing and enterprise growth features, since November 2021.
Oliveira first joined Warner Music Brazil again in 2013, heading up its enterprise growth operation.
Oliveira began out within the leisure trade in 2007, working as a manufacturing supervisor at Bandit Movies & Digital, an organization that specialised in creating adverts and branded on-line and TV content material.
She later labored for Telefónica, overseeing its video on demand content material, working in partnership with main studios, programmers and native producers.
She then moved to Terra Networks, main its international content material acquisition technique for areas from information to music, earlier than becoming a member of Warner Music.
Sérgio Affonso has labored at Warner Music for 38 years. Throughout that point he signed artists like Kelly Key, O Rappa, Raimundos, Maria Rita, Céu and Detonautas, additionally having labored with among the largest names in Brazilian music – Milton Nascimento, Paralamas do Sucesso, Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee, Jorge BenJor, Gonzaquinha, Titãs, Ultraje a Rigor, Child Abelha, Barão Vermelho and lots of others.
Between 2002 and 2007 Affonso was President of Warner Music Mexico and signed artists equivalent to Jesse y Pleasure, Motel, Miguel Islas, Panda and Ximena Sariñana.
Warner says he” has additionally labored with among the largest Latin stars on the planet”, together with Alejandro Sanz, Jorge Drexler, La Ley, Laura Pausini, Luis Miguel, Maná, Miguel Bose, Pesado, Celso Piña, El Tri and Francisco Cespedes. And he actively participated within the excursions of a few of Warner Music’s largest international artists, together with David Bowie, Madonna and Tina Turner.
In 2008, in Brazil, he signed new artists like Anitta, Ferrugem, IZA, Kevinho, Ludmilla, MC Fioti, MC Lan, Pedro Sampaio and Pocah, amongst others.
Extra not too long ago, in a partnership with GR6 – the musical label from SP, signed Don Juan, Hariel and Ryan SP.
Warner additionally says that Affonso has been closely concerned in Brazil’s competition scene, together with collaborating within the Rock in Rio occasion for a few years. He has additionally developed a wide range of curated music collections, equivalent to Mestres da MPB, Geração Pop, Dose Dupla and the Café Brasil.
“I’ve obtained large ambitions to additional develop our firm and make Brazil a supply of world expertise for Warner Music.”
Leila Oliveira
Leila Oliveira stated: “It’s an unbelievable honor to be requested to succeed Sergio as President of Warner Music Brazil. I’ve labored for him for nearly a decade and learnt a lot about easy methods to assist artists and keep nimble in our ever altering trade.
“I’ve obtained large ambitions to additional develop our firm and make Brazil a supply of world expertise for Warner Music.”
“I’ve had a tremendous time operating Warner Music Brazil, attending to spend time supporting essentially the most outstanding artists and serving to flip their goals into careers.”
Sérgio Affonso
Sérgio Affonso added: “I’ve had a tremendous time operating Warner Music Brazil, attending to spend time supporting essentially the most outstanding artists and serving to flip their goals into careers.
“I do know that they’re all in secure palms with Leila, who I’ve labored with intently for almost a decade and proudly indicated as my successor. I’m positive she’ll construct on my legacy to make Warner Music Brazil even greater and higher.
“I’ve obtained a lot of thrilling tasks within the pipeline and will probably be talking about them sooner or later.”
“This can be a pivotal second within the growth of Warner Music Brazil.”
Alejandro Duque
Alejandro Duque stated: “This can be a pivotal second within the growth of Warner Music Brazil. Sergio has performed a lot to construct a robust firm that has delivered superb success for artists from an enormous vary of backgrounds.
“Now Leila will write the following chapter within the firm’s historical past, constructing on Sergio’s success and making Warner Music Brazil a power to be reckoned with on the worldwide music scene.”
“Leila is a pioneer within the Brazilian music enterprise, serving to lead our digital transition in such an enormous and necessary market.”
Simon Robson, President, Worldwide, Warner Recorded Music, stated: “Leila is a pioneer within the Brazilian music enterprise, serving to lead our digital transition in such an enormous and necessary market.
“Now she’s making historical past once more, changing into the primary girl to go a serious label in Brazil. I wish to pay tribute to Sergio, who has led our enterprise in Brazil for therefore lengthy and helped so many artists through the years. We want him all the very best for the long run.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
