Official website (http://www.sunrecords.com/)
Key facts
- Parent company
- Primary Wave
- Founded
- February 1, 1952 ; 74 years ago ( February 1, 1952 )
- Founder
- Sam Phillips
- Distributor
- Virgin Music Group
- Genre
- Rock and roll , country , blues , rockabilly
- Country of origin
- United States
- Location
- Memphis , Tennessee
- Official website
- sunrecords .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Sun Records | Where Rock and Roll was Born
Home of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips and more.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.sunrecords.com
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- Commons category
- Sun Records
- inception
- 1952-00-00
- short name
- Sun
- social media followers
- 29995
- native label
- Sun Records
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Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American musicians because Phillips loved rhythm and blues and wanted to bring it to a white audience.
On January 28, 2021, Sun Records was acquired by Primary Wave for $30 million.