Jill Scott Being Sued By Former Record Label
Sounds like somebody forgot about her roots — or she made a better business decision!
Jill Scott is being sued by indie record label Hidden Beach which is claiming that Scott was an unknown the label took a chance on ten years ago and Hidden "poured its heart and soul into making poet and oul and R & N singer and songwriter Jill Scott a superstar."
Scott's attorney informed the label in October of 2009 that the singer was moving on and would "no longer perform recording services for Hidden Beach" even though she had a contract with them to do 3 more albums under Hidden.
In the papers, Hidden documents their devotion to Jill as an artist citing their promotional campaigns and the money spent on producing and filming one of her concert which she didn't want to release in the end because she was afraid no one would pay to see her live if they could watch the DVD.
Hidden also claims that they helped Jill's film career by securing a spot for her in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married.
Hidden is suing Jill for undisclosed damages and attorney fees.
But superstars always end up leaving the indie labels that discovered them — it's just a fact of life!
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GET WITH THE PROGRAM FAT BOY
THIS IS 3 OLD DAY NEWS
WHO'D U COPY THIS STORY FROM?
R & N Singer? Was a new music genre created one day when I wasn't paying attention?
the grammar in that first paragraph is so bad, I stopped reading - I'll go to another celebrity "news" website to find out what's going on w/ the sista………
1. Read this on Monday in Yahoo news section.
2. What is an "oul and R & N singer" ?
3. A contract is a contract and you can't just 'leave'. You either honor the contract or make some kind of legal negotiation. You can't just decide to leave with no repercussions. So to say that everyone does this is idiotic. Again, Perez showing his ignorance of the music business (and everything else).
and wenches like her will cause the death of the indie label who bring real talent to the public, not like the big machines that just crank out autotune fake tit whores.
Re: erinmaiden –
wench?
Mathematics! Hidden Beach's Label is on 6 Albums - I guess the question now will be "When is an album an album?" Seems if Hidden Beach published an album (cd), it should qualify, unless they would also like to return the money.