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Dante Ross (born October 11, 1965) is an American music industry executive, A&R representative, and record producer. He was named one of the top-25 greatest A&R representatives in hip-hop by Complex magazine. Ross has been in his career an office messenger, a tour manager, an A&R person, a record producer, a notable songwriter, and artist manager.
As a producer Ross was a third of the Stimulated Dummies production team with partners John Gamble (1960-2020) and Geeby Dajani (1961-2019). The production team worked with artists such as Brand Nubian, Grand Puba, Leaders of the New School, 3rd Bass, and Del the Funky Homosapien. Gamble and Ross later went on to produce Carlos Santana, Everlast (working on both the multi-platinum album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues and the gold follow-up Eat at Whitey's), and many others. Ross earned a Grammy Award in 2000 for his work on Santana's Supernatural for his production on the song "Put Your Lights On" featuring Everlast. The song would also win a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Ross would also write and produce the Anthony Hamilton and Santana duet on Santana's gold album All That I Am. Ross' production work has also appeared on Eminem's , on which he produced and co-wrote two songs that featured Macy Gray and Young Zee. Ross has also been enlisted for his remixing skills, which have been featured on songs by Korn as well as a plethora of other artists in genres as diverse as Nu metal, Dancehall, Neo-Soul, and Hip-Hop.
Ross is credited with championing Macklemore while at Warner Brothers records, which lead him to becoming the VP of A and R at ADA in 2012. He would go on to sign Lil Dicky, and MadeinTYO who both were awarded platinum records in 2016. Ugly God, his first signing to the relaunched Asylum Records, was awarded a platinum single in June 2017. He served as senior vice president of A&R at ADA Music, the independent distribution company owned by the Warner Music Group from 2013-2017. In 2017 Ross served as senior vice president of A&R for the newly re-activated Asylum Records where he signed Sada_Baby before leaving the label in early 2020. Ross' first book, a memoir Son of The City, was published by Rare Bird lit in May 2023 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/son-of-the-city-dante-ross/1133948715.
In 2023 Ross partnered with
In addition Ross' served as a producer and music supervisor on A and E's Ol' Dirty Bastard documentary, A Tale of Two Dirtys https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32460476/?ref_=ttfc_ov_i
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