MIKE CURB
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Founder and Chairman of Curb Records, Career spanning 5 decades as a multi-faceted successful songwriter, producer and record company owner, covering a wide range of musical styles
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Curb is a co-owner of Word Records (US largest Contemporary Christian Label) in partnership with Warner Brothers
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1978 Elected Lieutenant Governor of California
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Financial Chairman of Republican National Finance Committee for Re-election of Ronald Reagan (raised over $100,000,000)
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Curb Records has achieved more than 300 Billboard #1 Records; 1,609 Billboard Top Ten Records; 147 RIAA Gold and Platinum albums; 67 RIAA Gold and Platinum singles; 23 Grammy Awards
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Curb has written over 130 Songs for Films and Television; 50 Songs for TV Commercials
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Billboard named Curb Records the 2001, 2012 Country Music Label of the Year;
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Received Hollywood Walk of Fame Star and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame
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Curb has served on the governing boards of the Recording Industry Association of America, the Dole Food Company, the worldwide board of the USO, the ACM, CMA and CMF (Country Music Hall of Fame) and was honored by the Grammy Museum where the Mike Curb Gallery is located
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"How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes, co-produced by Curb, earned Curb the longest-running record in the history of the Billboard pop chart (69 weeks) country chart (200 weeks); and co-produced Rimes' "You Light Up My Life," the only album ever to debut No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Chart, Country Chart and Contemporary Christian Chart. "You Light Up My Life" won a Grammy and an Academy Award
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2012 Grammy Museum Grammy Icon Award
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Curb has guided the careers of The Osman Brothers, (One bad Apple), Dion & Belmonts (A Teenager In Love / Runaround Sue), Four Seasons (Oh, What A Night). Bellamy Brothers (Let Your Love Flow), Shaun Cassidy (Da Doo Ron Ron), Debbie Boone (You Light Up My Life), Sammy Davis Jr. (Candy Man), Frankie Valli (Grease), T.G. Sheppard, Hank Williams, Jr. and many more