With songs like TLC’s No Scrubs, and Tag Team’s five time platinum release “ Whomp There It Is”, and 12- Gauges one time platinum release “ Donkey Butt”. His ears have been golden in picking number one hit after hits. Now as President and CEO of Tony Mercedes Music he has risen to the occasion as a creative genius. Ever since then Mercedes has made unforgettable footprints in this business we call music. That persistence and determination led Mercedes to the top of the music industry and “Dazzey Dukes” to the top of the Billboard charts- making it one of many of Mercedes longest charting records in Billboard history (56 consecutive weeks). With $2,300.00 Mercedes embarked on what others thought was insane as an amateur to the music industry. Not taking “No” for an answer, Mercedes launched his own independent record label out of his hometown Augusta, Georgia. He was assured early on that year that his debut single “ Dazzey Dukes” would never even leave the State of Florida where he had previously attended the “Jack the Rapper” convention.
It may have been a shock to those radio and music executives who turned down Mercedes’ first song: “Dazzey Dukes” which became the club dance anthem all across the nation in 1992 and generated sales exceeding five million records sold. It was never a secret that Atlanta-based music mogul Tony Mercedes would be at the forefront of the music industry one day. On this episode of Roger The Wild Child Show: Hollyweird we are joined my two time Grammy winning music publisher, Tony Mercedes!
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