LogicFirst
Banned
Gerald E. "Jerry" Heller (born October 6) in Shaker Heights, Ohio is best known for managing west coast rap supergroup and gangster rap pioneers NWA and Eazy E. Across five tumultuous decades, he has helped shape American popular music, breaking new talent, developing new trends, and forging an industry-wide reputation as "the guy who gets there first." He rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70's as a "superagent," importing Elton John and Pink Floyd for their first major American tours, and representing Journey, Marvin Gaye, Joan Armatrading, Van Morrison, War, Average White Band, ELO, Eric Burdon, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ike & Tina Turner, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, The Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Four Tops, Dr. John, Jose Feliciano, The Grass Roots, and The Standells, among many others.
In the mid-1980s he continued to generate many groundbreaking record deals in New Wave and Punk which defined and reinvented the music industry for the next decade and beyond with acts like Michel'le, World Class Wreckin' Cru, J.J. Fad The D.O.C., Egyptian Lover, L.A. Dream Team.
Heller was the moving force and marketing genius behind the worldwide emergence of West Coast rap music. He not only cofounded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E, but discovered, signed, or managed the likes of N.W.A., The Black Eyed Peas, Above the Law, The D.O.C., and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He lives in Calabasas, California.
In the mid-1980s he continued to generate many groundbreaking record deals in New Wave and Punk which defined and reinvented the music industry for the next decade and beyond with acts like Michel'le, World Class Wreckin' Cru, J.J. Fad The D.O.C., Egyptian Lover, L.A. Dream Team.
Heller was the moving force and marketing genius behind the worldwide emergence of West Coast rap music. He not only cofounded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E, but discovered, signed, or managed the likes of N.W.A., The Black Eyed Peas, Above the Law, The D.O.C., and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He lives in Calabasas, California.
he could give a fukk about hip hop. he was only concerned with making a dollar
