Dante Ross
Dante Ross is an American music industry executive, A&R and producer. Ross was recently named one of the Top 25 Greatest A&Rs in Hip Hop by [1]. Ross started his A&R career at Tommy Boy records where he signed and handled the careers of such artist as De La Soul, Queen Latifah and Digital Underground. He then went onto work for Elektra records were he signed Brand Nubian, Grand Puba, Pete Rock and C.L Smooth, K.M.D, Leaders of the New School and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He is currently a VP of A&R with Warner Music Group.
Also a producer, Ross has produced records for such artists as, 3rd Bass, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Santana, Everlast (working on both the multi platinum album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues and the gold follow-up Eat At Whiteys) plus many others. Ross earned a Grammy for his work with Santana, this was credited to his work on Santana’s Supernatural release of 1998. Ross’ production work has also appeared on Eminem’s 8 Mile soundtrack where he produced and co wrote 2 songs which featured Macy Grey and Young Z. Ross has also been enlisted for his remixing skills, which has seen him remix Korn amongst other artist.
Complex Magazine [2] Wax Poetic [3] Stop The Breaks [4] Channel Dynamic [5] LTD Magazine [6] LA Weekly [7]