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Darrin Edward McGillis
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Official portrait for the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election
Born December 31, 1966 (1966-12-31) (age 43)
Residence Miami, Florida United States
Nationality United States
Occupation Entertainment executive and producer

Darrin Edward McGillis (born December 31, 1966(1966-12-31)) is an American entertainment executive, music producer and political candidate. He is the CEO for McGillis Records, an independent record label whose biggest artist was former Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. Under his management, they released several English songs including Cosmopolitan Girl and Dancin, Movin, Shakin by Menudo. The label also had released albums for several ex-Menudo members including Angelo Garcia and Ruben Gomez.

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Concert Tours

In 1986, McGillis began to promote the first of many nationwide concert tours that toured across the United States, including Menudo James Brown, Exposé, The Jets, The Cover Girls, Dr. Dre, and many others[1].

Record label

In 1989, McGillis started the McGillis Records Company in New York City, New York. One of the company's first acts was contracting two former Menudo band members, Angelo Garcia and Ruben Gomez. In 1992, he signed Menudo, which at the time was an extremely popular boy band throughout Latin America, and they released the songs "Cosmopolitan Girl" and "Dancin, Movin, Shakin" and a behind-the-scenes video, "The Making of Dancin Movin Shakin". Several, mainly Spanish-language acts appeared on the label including Explosion which was a teen group from Puerto Rico. The label later released a three disc set of all their hits, Triple Threat DVD/CD Combo, which also had hits by freestyle artists Nayobe and The Cover Girls.

Politics

In 2008, McGillis entered the political arena by running for a countywide seat as Clerk of the Circuit Court[2] of Miami-Dade, Florida, in the November 2008 general election. Although he received a total of 39,936 votes, McGillis lost the election to incumbent Harvey Ruvin who has been in office for over sixteen years. In September 2008, McGillis filed a lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County Elections Department claiming that he should have been listed first, not last on the ballot.[3]

On November 5, 2009, Darrin McGillis, officially became a Democratic candidate for Governor of the State of Florida. Florida Elections web site. The election for Governor is set for November of 2010.

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Since 1986 Darrin McGillis, the president and the executive producer for World Wide Entertainment USA, Inc., has shined in the Music Industry. In the late 80's he was the youngest national concert tour promoter ever. With the skill and expertise of a staff of 100 industry insiders, Darrin McGillis promoted major concert tours in the most prestigious venues: The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles; Madison Square Garden in New York City; and the Miami Arena in Florida; with concert tours promoted in over 25 cities throughout the United States. The experience to conquer any market is rooted forever.

In the early 90's McGillis relocated his office, from the mid-west to New York City, and launched World Wide Records. McGillis immediately signed Angelo Garcia, the lead singer of Menudo. It was after Angelo’s hit release, “Don’t Keep Me Holding On”, that McGillis negotiated and sold the recording contract to Warner Bros, Records.

Having huge success in the record industry, McGillis signed and recorded the most popular teen group in the world, Menudo . The group had two hit songs, “Dancin, Movin Shakin” and “Cosmopolitan Girl”. Both songs skyrocketed in Latin America. It became clear to McGillis in the late 90's that Latin America was a huge market for music success. He concentrated his investments and energy promoting recording Artist from Puerto Rico.

In the late 90's McGillis also created the musical group EXPLOSION releasing his first all Spanish Music CD on McGillis Records entitled “Que No Se Detenga (Don’t Let It Stop)”. The CD was released throughout Latin America with great success before Darrin McGillis disbanded the group to take the lead singer, JOEL, solo. With the release of JOELMantendre Este Amor (I’ll Hold On)” (produced and written by Mic Mac Records Producer Mickey Garcia) which took off like lighting in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru & Panama. It proved Darrin McGillis, a young American from the mid-west, could conquer not only the USA markets but was now truly international.

It is only through the 2006 release of the TRIPLE THREAT DVD / CD combo that you are able to enjoy what countless fans have over the years and what McGillis calls the ULTIMATE MUSIC EXPERIENCE.

Fast-forward to 2006, and we find McGillis to be a fixture in front of his computer. He spends his days, and nights, monitoring the Gerstein Justice Building Blog, and doing his best to flood the blog with innocuous information in an attempt to shut the blog down. In his spare time, he files lawsuits and threatens to file lawsuits and bar complaints against a host of individuals. His life has been reduced to staring at his computer screen. Someday, maybe, he will find something more productive to do.

External link

  • http://www.mcgillismusic.com










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