Keith Harris (manajan mai zane)

Keith Harris OBE (an haife shi a watan Oktoba shekara ta 1951) mai ba da shawara ne ga masana'antar kiɗa ta Ingila kuma manajan mai zane-zane, wanda shine tsohon shugaban kungiyar UK Music's Diversity & Equality Taskforce .  Harris ya yi aiki a masana'antar kiɗa a bangarorin biyu na Atlantic sama da shekaru arba'in a matsayin manajan gabatarwa, gami da manyan kamfanoni kamar Transatlantic Records, EMI da Motown, kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan shugabannin baƙar fata a cikin kasuwancin, tare da masu zane-zane da ya wakilta ciki har da Stevie Wonder (wanda ya yi aiki tare da shi tun daga shekarun 1970), Junior Giscombe, Omar, da Lynden David Hall. Harris yana aiki a matsayin darektan da ba babban darektan ba da kuma mukamai na kwamitin a duk faɗin kungiyoyin agaji da kamfanoni da yawa, yayin da yake ba da jawabai, tarurruka da bita a kai a kai don canza ra'ayi da taimakawa wajen ba matasa kayan aiki don shiga masana'antar.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haife shi a Newcastle,  Harris ya girma a Wigan, a arewacin Ingila.  Ya kasance "mai sha'awar duniyar kiɗa tun yana da shekaru tara ko 10",  kuma ya koyi yin wasa da guitar,  kodayake a lokacin da ya halarci Jami'ar Dundee ya fahimci cewa hanyarsa ta shiga masana'antar ba ta cikin yin kiɗa da kansa ba: "Kasancewa mai shirya nishaɗi a Dundee cikakke ne, kamar a waɗancan kwanakin zagaye na jami'a yana da mahimmanci ga ƙungiyoyi. Ina yin rajistar ƙungiyoyi kamar Yes, Supertramp da Thin Lizzy, waɗanda duk suka ci gaba da samun nasara a duniya". 

Harris ya fara aiki a masana'antar rikodin a tsakiyar shekarun 1970, wanda lakabin mai zaman kansa na Burtaniya da ake kira Transatlantic Records ya fara aiki, wanda ke wakiltar yawancin mawaƙa na Burtaniya kuma ya rarraba lakabin jazz Blue Note da Milestone Records.

Ya shiga EMI Records a 1976 a matsayin Shugaban Gabatarwa, ya zama Babban Manajan lakabin a 1978. Ya yi aiki ga yawancin alamun EMI, ciki har da Rocket (yana aiki a kan kundin Elton John na 1976 Blue Moves), Fantasy Records, Ariola Records, da EMI International. Daga nan ya yi aiki na shekaru biyu a Motown, ya zama Janar Manajan lakabin, kuma a wannan lokacin ya yi aiki tare da masu fasaha kamar Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, The Commodores, Rick James, The Supremes, Thelma Houston da Stevie Wonder .  Ya bar Motown a shekara ta 1978, ya koma Los Angeles, inda ya kasance Manajan Ayyuka na kamfanonin Stevie Wonder.

A shekara ta 1982, Harris ya koma Burtaniya kuma ya kafa kamfaninsa na gudanarwa, yana sarrafa masu fasaha ciki har da Junior Giscombe, Omar, Junior Tucker, Paul Johnson, da Lynden David Hall, yayin da yake ci gaba da wakiltar Stevie Wonder, wanda ya yi aiki tare da shi tun 1977. 

 Kyaututtuka da karbuwa 

 Music Managers Forum (MMF) British Music Roll of Honour . 
 Dokta na girmamawa daga Jami'ar Westminster, Nuwamba 2007. 
 MMF Music Industry Champion, 2014 . 
 Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2015 . 

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