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Born in Istanbul, Turkey, they moved to Washington, DC with their father M. Munir Ertegun , who was then the Turkish Ambassador to the United States.

Ahmet Ertegun, together with his brother Nesuhi, producer Tom Dowd , Jerry Wexler and others created the Atlantic Records in the late 1940s as an independent record company that became a jazz and pop empire in the 1960s.

Their first success came in rhythm and blues, with such artists as Joe Turner, Ruth BrownRuth Brown (b. January 12, 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia) was a singer known for a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records. In 1945, Brown ran away from her home in Portsmouth along with a trumpeter, Jimmy Brown, whom she soon married. She then spent a mo, The Clovers , The DriftersAlternate meaning: The Drifters (novel) The Drifters were a long-lived American band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records approached McPhatter after he left the Dominoes and signed, and Ray CharlesRay Charles ( September 23, 1930 June 10, 2004) was a pioneering pianist and soul singer who helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards to " God Bless America". His birth name w. They brought a jazz sensibility (and many jazz artists) into R&B and participated in turning the genre from a minority interest into a major part of the musical scene. Ahmet Ertegun wrote a number of classic bluesBlues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. Blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, songs, including "Chains of Love" and "Sweet Sixteen" under the pseudonymA pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. Pseudonyms in print When used by authors, a pseudonym is also called a pen name or (in French) nom de pl A. Nugetre (Ertegun backwards).

Many independent record executives, like the Erteguns, were from immigrant backgrounds, including the Bihari brothers and the Chess brothersThis is an article about the phonograph record label "Chess Records". For records in the game of Chess, see World records in Chess''. Chess Records was a USA record label, based in Chicago, Illinois. It was run by the brothers Leonard Chess and Phil Chess.

Although their primary musical interest was jazz (both brothers promoted jazz concerts, founded jazz record companies and organized jazz bands), through artists like Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Hank Crawford , they were also open to more modern popular styles and worked with such famous artists as Sonny and Cher.

They were also co-founders and ex-directors of the New York Cosmos soccer team.

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