RBW (company)

RBW, Inc
Native name
 (주)알비더블유
Private
Industry Music
Genre
Predecessor WA Entertainment
Rainbow Bridge Agency
Founded March 5, 2010 (2010-03-05)
Founder
  • Kim Jin-woo
  • Kim Do-hoon
Headquarters Seoul, South Korea
Number of locations
 B1, 7, Janghan-ro, 20-gil, Dongdaemun-gu
Key people
  • Kim Jin-woo (co-CEO)
  • Kim Do-hoon (co-CEO)
  • Kim Kyung-ho (Vice President, CFO)
  • Lim In-yong (Vice President, Broadcast Promotion)
Subsidiaries
  • Cloud R (2016)
  • All Right Music (2017)[1]
Website rbbridge.com

RBW (Korean:알비더블유; an acronym for Rainbow Bridge World) is a South Korean entertainment company founded by Kim Jin-woo and Kim Do-hoon.[2] The label is home to artists such as Mamamoo, Vromance, Basick, Yangpa, Monday Kiz, OBROJECT, Onewe and Oneus.

History

Kim Jin-woo originally is the representative director of Cube Entertainment's Music Cube. Kim Jin-woo was in charge of the practice room rental business and then expanded his business with opening AN Bridge, Rainbow Bridge Academy and ENB Academy Practical Music Academy, which integrated under the name Modern & Bridge. In March 2010, he later established the first OEM company, Rainbow Bridge Agency, which operates to train students who are not trainees with similar process as the regular entertainment company, such as vocal, dance, acting, language, etc.

In August 2011, Hwang Sung-jin (former Music Cube producer) and Kim Do-hoon (former Music Cube director) joined Kim Jin-woo's Modern & Bridge and took representative and director positions.

In March 2012, Kim Do-hoon joined corporation with Rainbow Bridge Agency’s established music label, WA Entertainment.

In August 2012, WA Entertainment along with Brand New Music debuted Hip hop trio Phantom.[3]In December 2012, Hip hop duo Geeks signed with WA Entertainment.[4][5]

In June 2014, WA Entertainment debuted their first girl group Mamamoo.[6]In August 2014, RBW debuted composer Esna as a solo singer.[7] In September 2014, WA Entertainment debuted brother duo OBROJECT.[8]

In March 2015, WA Entertainment merged with Rainbow Bridge Agency to create an independent label RBW (acronym for Rainbow Bridge World).[9]In September 2015, Yangpa signed with RBW.[10]In December 2015, rapper Basick and Big Tray signed with RBW.[11]

In June 2016, Monday Kiz signed with RBW.[12] Later that month, RBW confirmed that rock band M.A.S 0094 joined the label, as well as the changing of the band name to MAS (acronym for Make A Sound).[13] In July 2016, RBW debuted vocal group Vromance.[14]

Subsidiaries

Sub-labels

Cloud R

On May 27, 2016, RBW joint cooperation with Lee Seong-yeon established independent sub-label.[15][16]

All Right Music

All Right Music is an independent Hip hop label headed by rapper Basick and RBW producer Im Sang-hyuk.[1] Established in March 2017, the label was set up by RBW to focused hip hop scene. It was introduced their first artist: Big Tray, Marvel J and B.O.[17]

Artists

Recording artists

Independent artists

All Right Music

  • Im Sang-hyuk (President)
  • Basick (President)
  • Big Tray
  • Marvel J
  • B.O.

Former artists

Former recording artists

  • ESna (2014–2017)
  • Phantom (2012–2017) (co-managed with Brand New Music)

References

  1. 1 2 http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=215&aid=0000535816
  2. ↑ "The Top 10 Songwriters of 2012 (see #4)". Soompi. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=003&aid=0004643654
  4. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0000081353
  5. ↑ https://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/18400/20121218/hip-hop-duo-geeks-signs-contract-with-kim-do-hoon.htm
  6. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=404&aid=0000070682
  7. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=421&aid=0000964840
  8. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=312&aid=0000046246
  9. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=421&aid=0001329707
  10. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0000406808
  11. ↑ http://m.news.naver.com/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=103&oid=015&aid=0003404652
  12. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=311&aid=0000619524
  13. ↑ http://m.cafe.daum.net/makeasound0094/hKTG/73?
  14. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=057&aid=0000990680
  15. ↑ http://m.sportsworldi.com/content/html/2016/05/31/20160531004334.html
  16. ↑ http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0000476556
  17. ↑ https://www.soompi.com/2017/03/16/mamamoos-agency-rbw-forms-hip-hop-label-rapper-basick/
  18. ↑ "Director & Producer". Retrieved May 15, 2018.


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