Category: DMG
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2024 Billboard Women In Music
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the 2024 Billboard Women In Music list. Before last year, if fans wanted to listen to one of De La Soul’s critically acclaimed albums from the […]
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Can Sampling Survive in the Age of AI?
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed by The Ringer for this article on how AI is impacting sampling. Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the president and owner of DMG Clearances. Mannis-Gardner has worked in the […]
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2023 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the 2023 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players list. “Sampling is a huge part of De La Soul’s entire catalog, and we spent the past year pulling off […]
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for Forbes 50 Over 50 and Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players Lists
August 7, 2023 (Hockessin, DE) – Deborah Mannis-Gardner — Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc. and the “Queen of Sample Clearances” according to Billboard, Forbes, Variety, and more — was selected […]
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 List
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the Forbes 50 Over 50 list for 2023.
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Serves as Music Supervisor of Upcoming Neil Bogart Biopic ‘Spinning Gold’
March 30, 2023 – Deborah Mannis-Gardner – Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc. and the “Queen of Sample Clearances” according to Billboard, Forbes, Variety, and more – served as music supervisor […]
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Interviewed on BBC’s “The World Tonight”
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed on The World Tonight on BBC on March 21, 2023 beginning at the 26:15 mark.
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Politiken: After 34 years, the record you weren’t allowed to hear comes out
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed for this Politiken article on De La Soul. For decades, De La Soul’s music was frozen out of the digital world. But after a bitter battle, […]
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HipHopDX: How Deborah Mannis-Gardner Helped Clear De La Soul’s Catalog for Streaming
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was featured in an article from HipHopDX. Deborah Mannis-Gardner, founder of DMG Clearances, was instrumental in securing the necessary sample clearances in order for De La Soul’s catalog to finally […]
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New York Times: De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory.
The New York Times featured Deborah Mannis-Gardner in this article on De La Soul. The band hired Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the rap world’s go-to sample clearance agent, and the work took […]