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With some four decades in the music business, he has played in a band, scouted, signed artists, directed major label A&R departments, produced, executive produced and been a managing director of three major record labels.
Korda’s illustrious career spans over four decades, playing in a band, scouted, signed artists, directed major label A&R departments, produced, executive produced and been a managing director of three major record labels.
Starting at RCA Records in 1993, he’s and since worked at Atlantic Records, Warner Music Group, BMG, and Mushroom Records – and launched record labels Infectious and Contagious!
He either signed or worked with artists such as The Blow Monkeys, Londonbeat, Eurythmics, The Primitives, The Wedding Present, Pop Will Eat Itself, Westworld, Take That, Peter Andre, Rick Astley, Black Box, Paul Oakenfold, Caron Wheeler, Ash, Muse, Garbage, The Darkness, James Blunt, Gnarls Barkley, Madonna, REM, My Chemical Romance, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, The Enemy, Seasick Steve, The Temper Trap, DMA’S, Alt-J, Ry-X, Bloc Party, Morrissey, Culture Club, Emma Bunton, The Prodigy, Blondie, Chris Rea, You Me At Six, Pendulum, Antony Szmierek, amongst others.
In a full-circle moment in 2022, Korda returned to the Mushroom Group as International Director of the Mushroom Label division’s global operations. He played an instrumental role in striking a multi-layered global partnership between Virgin Music Label & Artist Services (VLMAS) to support and distribute Mushroom artists’ releases worldwide, outside of Australia and New Zealand. Korda currently sits on the board of the OCC and is the non-executive chairman of Papa Productions, which produces two very successful shows called ‘Raiding the Rock Vault’ and ‘Raiding the Emo Vault’ at The Tropicana in Las Vegas.
