Easy Star Records
Eric Smith is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in the music industry, serving as CEO and Co-Founder of Easy Star Records since January 1996. Prior to this role, Eric Smith worked in the newsroom at The New York Times from September 1993 to May 2004. Educationally, Eric Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University at Albany and is an alumnus of Stuyvesant High School, graduating in 1988.
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Easy Star Records
Easy Star Records is an American independent record label founded in 1996 by Eric Smith, Lem Oppenheimer, Remy Gerstein, and Michael Goldwasser. Based in New York City, it primarily produces and releases albums in the genres of reggae and dub. The label has had multiple albums chart at #1 on the Billboard Top Reggae Albums chart, including Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band, two albums by The Green, and Vines by Passafire, who signed to the label in 2013. In 2014 the label released albums by artists such as Rebelution, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Backbeat Soundsystem, New Kingston, and The Expanders, who's June 2015 album Hustling Culture debuted at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. The label manages bands such as the Easy Star All-Stars, a touring and recording musical collective, and has worked with artists outside the reggae genre such as Citizen Cope and Corey Harris.