Claim: L.A. Reid has served as the chairman of an American record label group formed in Italy.
Evidence: He has served as the chairman and CEO of Epic Records , a division of Sony Music Entertainment , the president and CEO of Arista Records , and the chairman and CEO of the Island Def Jam Music Group.
-LSB- ˈɛ.rɪ.stə -RSB- was a major American record label.
Sony Music Entertainment -LRB- known professionally as Sony Music and abbreviated as SME -RRB- is an American music company owned by Sony that is incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment , a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.