| Summary: | Music manager and record executive Michael Thomas Mauldin was born on October 30, 1953 in Murphy, North Carolina. Mauldin began his music career with the integrated band, The Other Side. After attending DeVry University, Mauldin moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he married and had a child, Jermaine Dupri. In the mid-1970s, Mauldin worked as stage and production manager for the funk band Brick. He started a touring company that provided staff for traveling music groups. In 1984, Mauldin produced the New York City Fresh Festival. In 1995, he became the first African American head of a music division when he was president of Columbia Records black music division. In 1999, Mauldin left Columbia, and in 2002, Mauldin Brand Films released Like Mike, a film starring rapper Bow Wow. Mauldin worked with NASCAR to help them penetrate the Hip Hop market and signed a deal to produce apparel aimed at young African Americans.
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