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About Deborah Mannis-Gardner

With over 20 years in the music industry, Deborah Mannis-Gardner has cornered the market in music clearances.

After working for Diamond Time and RCA Records, and under the suggestion of her clients who missed her availability, Deborah established her own music clearance company, DMG Clearances, Inc.  For the past 15 years Deborah has gained recognition not only in the music industry but also in the video games, featured films, DVDs, and television industries as well. 

Deborah works with top labels such as Atlantic Records, Sony Music, Capitol Records, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Bad Boy Records, Island Def Jam Recordings, Universal Records, and Warner Bros. Records clearing samples for such renown artists as John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Drake, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Eminem, The Notorious B.I.G., U2, Kid Rock and Beyonce to name a few. 

Deborah's featured film music clearances includes Martin Scorcese's The Aviator, Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, In Her Shoes and Lucky You, The Coen Brother's O Brother Where Art Thou  and Richard Linklater's School Of Rock, Notorious and most recently  More Than A Game and she has worked with many film companies such as New Line Cinema, Miramax, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Revolution Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures.

DMG is the clearance agent for RockStar Games, Inc. in which she has cleared the music used in their well publicized video games such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Warriors, and Midnight Club 3 Dub as well as helped bring designer Marc Ecko into the world of video games by clearing the music for Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Numark's highly anticipated DJ Scratch and 4MM's Def Jam Rap Star.  DMG has also worked as a consultant for other video game companies such as EA Entertainment and Activision.

Some of DMG's broadcast specials include concerts by Yolanda Adams, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Shakira, Beyonce, Rihanna and BET's Monica: Still Standing, Trey Songz: A Moment In Time, The Michael Vick Project, Tiny & Toya and The Mo'Nique Show.

DMG Clearances is known for clearing difficult copyrights from Led Zeppelin, Prince, AC/DC, to 6 song Mash Ups, making DMG a leader in music clearances.

In the Fall of 2010 the latest of her ideas will come life as Zah Muzickwerks! a music library of untapped/unsigned music as another means for her clients, studios, television networks and video game companies to use as a source for great music.


Deborah Mannis-Gardner
President/CEO
dmg clearances, Inc.
13 Robin Drive
Hockessin, DE 19707
(302) 239-6337 phone / (302) 239-6875 fax
deborah@dmgclearances.com
www.dmgclearances.com

 

Our Clients

  • 4MM
    20th Century Fox
    Activision
    Aftermath Records
    Asylum Records
    Atlantic Recording Corp.
    Bad Boy Records
    Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc.
    BET Networks
    Blacksmith
    Blue Man Group
    Cash Money Records
    Chris Tsaperas aka Forensic-C
    Coen Brothers
    Comcast
    Concord Records
    Curtis Hanson - Director
    DAMG Entertainment LLC
    Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP
    Deuce Productions
    Disturbing Tha Peace Records
    Doggy Style Records
    Downtown Records
    DuBose Entertainment
    E1 Music
    Electronic Arts (Canada) Inc.
    EMI Music, North America
    Flava Unit Entertainment
    Fox Filmed Entertainment
    Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc.
    Geffen Records
    Genius products
    Gold n Fish Marketing Group
    Goldring, Hertz & Lichtenstein, LLP
    Goliath Artists
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
    Grubman Indursky & Shire, P.C
    Harlem Globetrotters
    Harley Davidson
    Hiscock & Barclay, LLP
    Home Box Office
    Interscope Records
    Island Def Jam Recordings
    Jellybean Productions
    LaPolt Law, P.C.
    Miramax
    Music World Entertainment
    New Line Cinema
    Numark
    Paramount Pictures
    Randy Poster - Music Supervisor
    R*ckstar
    Prince
    Principle Mngt.
    Sedlmayr & Associates, P.C.
    Serling Rooks Ferrara McKoy & Worob LLP
    Shady Records
    Snoopadelic Films
    So So Def Productions
    Sony Music
    Source Magazine
    Take2
    Tristar Pictures
    Universal Pictures
    Universal Motown Republic
    VP Records
    View Askew / Kevin Smith Productions
    Virgin Mobile USA
    Walt Disney, Hollywood and Lyric Street Records
    Walt Disney Pictures
    Warner Brother Pictures
    WEA UK
    XS Games
    Yoga Records

    Individual Projects

    ARTISTS:
    Angie Stone
    Aretha Franklin
    B.O.B.
    Beyonce
    Birdman
    Biz Markie
    Black Eyed Peas
    Bone Thugs N Harmony
    Bow Wow
    Brandy
    Bruce Hornsby
    Busta Rhymes
    Carl Thomas
    Celine Dion
    Chamillionaire
    Chris Rock
    Christina Aguilera
    Cobra Starship
    Common
    Coolio
    Cypress Hill
    D12
    Dave Matthews Band
    De La Soul
    Deborah Cox
    Diddy
    DJ Clue
    DMX
    Drake
    Eminem
    EPMD
    Erick Sermon
    Estelle
    Eve
    Fabolous
    Faith Evans
    Fat Joe
    Flo Rida
    Funk Master Flex
    Ghostface Killah
    Gucci Mane
    House of Pain
    J. Holiday
    Ja Rule
    Jagged Edge
    Janet Jackson
    Jason Derulo
    Jennifer Lopez
    Jermaine Dupri
    Jurassic 5
    Lady Gaga
    Lil Jon
    Lil Kim
    Lil Wayne
    LL Cool J
    Maino
    Mariah Carey
    Mary J. Blige
    Method Man
    Michael Jackson
    Missy Elliott
    Monica
    Musiq Soulchild
    Nas
    Notorious B.I.G.
    Paul Wall
    Pink
    Plies
    Public Enemy
    Raekwon
    Redman
    Refletion Eternal
    Rick Ross
    Rihanna
    Ruff Ryders
    Salt N Pepa
    Santana
    Scarface
    Shyne
    Snoop Dogg
    Soulja Boy
    Swizz Beats
    T.I.
    The Dream
    The Game
    The Roots
    Three 6 Mafia
    TLC
    Toni Braxton
    Travie McCoy
    Trey Songz
    Tyrese
    U2
    Uncle Kracker
    Whitney Houston
    Will.I.Am
    Wu Tang Clan
    Wyclef
    Xzibit

    VIEDO GAMES:
    Boogie Superstar
    Bully
    Def Jam Rapstar
    Def Jam Vendetta
    DJ Scratch
    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
    Grand Theft Auto IV
    Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
    L.A. Noire
    Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
    Midnight Club: Los Angeles
    Popstar
    Red Dead Redemption

    FILM/TV/SOUNDTRACKS:
    8 Mile
    A Life Less Ordinary
    A&E In Concert: Rod Stewart
    Belly
    Best of Real Sex
    Big Momma's House
    Blue Streak
    Black & White
    Bringing Down the House
    Bulletproof
    Caught Up
    Christmas With The Cranks
    Cradle 2 The Grave
    Dogma
    Eddie
    Fast & The Furious
    Fighting Temptations
    Fled
    Hardball
    Hamlet
    He Got Game
    High School High
    How High
    I-95 (The Ride)
    In Her Shoes
    In Too Deep
    Kiss Me Guido
    Life & Times of Hank Greenberg
    Life on Death Row
    Lucky You
    Men With Guns
    More Than a Game
    Motown 40th Anniversary
    Notorious
    Next Friday
    Nutty Professor 2
    Nuyrican Dream
    O Brother Where Art Thou?
    Reindeer Games
    Rhyme & Reason
    Rocky IV
    Rounders
    School of Rock
    Shadow Boxers
    She's All That
    Slam
    Soul In a Hole
    Space Jam
    Starmaps
    Sunday's Best
    The Mo'Nique Show
    Tiny & Toya
    Velvet Goldmine
    West 47th Street
    White Girls
    WIllie Nelson Home Video
    Woo


Our Staff


Deborah Mannis-Gardner
President
Deborah@dmgclearances.com
302-239-6337 x2
302-239-6875 fax



Janice Shreve
Sr. Director, Sample Licensing & Contract Administration
Janice@dmgclearances.com
302-352-0117
302-239-6875 fax



Deanna Candeloro
Sr. Manager, Sample & Music Clearances
Deanna@dmgclearances.com
302-766-2199
302-239-6875 fax



Isaac Mitchell
Sample, TV & Synch Clearances
Isaac@dmgclearances.com
302-239-6337 x4
302-239-6875 fax


And for all your publishing administration needs
Meet our sister company:


Deborah Evans
Della Music Clearance
Della Music Publishing LLC
509 Mandeville St
New Orleans, LA 70117
deborahevansmusic@gmail.com
Tel: 917.517.0357
Fax: 504-304-4754