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Def Soul

US record label; contemporary R&B division of Def Jam Records
Organization Record Label Q3021173

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
record label

Status and dates

Inception
1996[7]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
2011[8]

Location

Headquarters location
New York City[6]

Relations

Owned by
Universal Music Group[2]
Parent organization or unit
The Island Def Jam Music Group[9]
More facts +2
Genre
contemporary R&B, soul, neo soul[3][4][5]
Name
Def Soul[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Def Soul en Def Soul Recordings en Def Soul Records
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Discogs label ID
6470
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1223q8y_
MusicBrainz label ID
9de1c82a-b0f7-46eb-9e1d-0a86a7b61d88

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Summary

Def Soul is a record label[1].

Product Details

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  • Type: Original Production[11]

  • Country: US[12]

  • Began / founded: 1996[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2011[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9de1c82a-b0f7-46eb-9e1d-0a86a7b61d88[15]

Related Entities

Def Jam Recordings

References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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