Question: McHayes was established by which Columbia Records artist?

Context articles: Danny Epps
McHayes
Michael Mauldin (producer)
CBS Records International
Soft and Beautiful
Crystal Gayle's Greatest Hits
Sony Classical Records
The Broadway Album
Orange Factory Music
Wade Hayes

Danny Epps (May 14, 1941 in Lufkin, Texas – October 29, 2007 in Houston, Texas) was a Columbia Records, Crazy Cajun Records and StarPlay Records artist.
McHayes was an American country music duo established in 2003 by Wade Hayes (guitar, vocals), along with musician Mark McClurg (fiddle, vocals).
 Prior to the duo's foundation, Hayes was a solo artist, and McClurg was a member of Alan Jackson's road band, The Strayhorns.
 Active only in the year 2003, McHayes recorded an unreleased studio album on the Universal South Records label, in addition to charting one single on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
 Ater disbanding, McClurg rejoined Jackson's band, and Hayes joined former Alabama lead singer Randy Owen's backing band.
Michael Mauldin is an entertainment industry executive, live event producer, and CEO of Scream Nation, which is a joint venture with Live Nation.
 He is a former President of Columbia Records Urban Division and former Senior Vice President of Columbia Records Group, and artist manager, and is the father of recording artist/producer/songwriter Jermaine Dupri.
CBS Records International, simply CBS in logo, was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS) that was formed in 1961 and launched in 1962.
 Previously Columbia Records had been using other record companies to distribute Columbia recordings outside North America, such as Philips Records and its subsidiary Fontana (now associated with Universal Music Group) in Europe.
Soft and Beautiful is the seventeenth studio album by the American singer Aretha Franklin, released on June 20, 1969, by Columbia Records.
 The album was recorded when Franklin was 22 years old between July 9 and 16, 1964, It was her last album on Columbia before she moved to Atlantic Records and until 1969, unreleased, although an alternative version of "A Mother's Love" appeared on Franklin's 1966 Columbia LP "Soul Sister".
 It reached Number 29 on "Billboard"'s R&B chart.
 Mark Bego, in "Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul", called it "the most consistently paced album of her later Columbia years".
 Originally released by Columbia Records, the album was reissued on CD with her 1962 album "The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin".
Crystal Gayle's Greatest Hits is Crystal Gayle's first compilation album to package her recordings from Columbia Records.
 All the material on this album is from the three albums she recorded on Columbia Records: "Miss the Mississippi", "These Days", and "Hollywood, Tennessee".
 It was released in August 1983 on Columbia Records.
Sony Classical Records (also known simply as Sony Classical) is an American record label founded in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.
 In 1948, it issued the first commercially successful long-playing 12" record.
 Over the next decades its artists included Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, Glenn Gould, Eugene Ormandy, Vangelis, Elliot Goldenthal, Leonard Bernstein and John Williams.
 Columbia Records used the Masterworks brand name not only for classical and Broadway records, but also for spoken-word albums such as Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly's successful "I Can Hear It Now" series.
 Parent CBS also featured the Masterworks name on its consumer electronics equipment.
The Broadway Album is the twenty-fourth studio album by director, composer, actress and singer Barbra Streisand, released by Columbia Records on November 5, 1985.
 Consisting mainly of classic show tunes, the album marked a major shift in Barbra Streisand's career.
 Streisand had spent ten years appearing in musicals and singing standards on her albums in the 1960s.
 Beginning with the album "Stoney End" in 1971 and ending with the album "Emotion" in 1984, Streisand sang mostly rock and disco-oriented songs for Columbia records.
 Noted Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim personally penned additional lyrics for the songs "Putting It Together" and "Send in the Clowns" on request of the singer.
 The album, originally released on the Columbia label and subsequently re-released by Columbia and Sony Records, was a critical and commercial success.
 First certified gold by the RIAA on January 13, 1986, it reached four times platinum on January 31, 1995.
Orange Factory Music (also known as OFM) is a production team formed in 1999 by producers and songwriters Jeremy Skaller and Robert Larow.
 OFM also has 3 writers signed under its corporate umbrella; Jamil 'digi" Chammas" and Jonathan 'Perky Rain' Perkins.
 Most noted for their discovery and development of Cash Money/Universal Records recording artist Jay Sean, the duo met at the University of Vermont before moving to New York to pursue their musical career.
 Skaller and Larow, professionally known as "J Remy" and "Bobby Bass" also continued to produce, write, and remix songs, going Gold and Platinum with, Desert Storm Records artist Fabolous, German Idol-winner Monrose (4 times Platinum), Canadian Idol-winner Eva Avila, Australian Idol runner-up Ricki-Lee and now with Cash Money Records/Universal Records artist, Jay Sean (over 18 Million sold worldwide).
Tony Wade Hayes (born April 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres, Oklahoma) is an American country music artist.
 Signed to Columbia Records in 1994, he made his debut that year with his gold-certified album "Old Enough to Know Better".
 Its title track, which served as his debut single, reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, and three more singles from it all reached Top Ten as well.