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
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
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
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