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Mottola was born in the Bronx, New York City, to a middle-class Italian-American family. [2] He graduated from Iona Grammar School in 1962 and Iona Prep in 1966. After a brief period in military school, he attended high school and later Hofstra University on Long Island.
Mottola is an Italian language surname. Möttölä is a Finnish language surname. Notable people with the surnames Mottola or Möttölä include: Chad Mottola (born 1971), American baseball player and coach; Greg Mottola (born 1964), American film director and screenwriter; Hanno Möttölä (born 1976), Finnish basketball player
In 2000, Universal and Tommy Mottola, who had served as CEO of Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia Records throughout the 1990s, partnered to launch a new record label that would be headed by Mottola and be part of the Universal Records Group. Mottola chose the name Casablanca, in homage to the Casablanca Records once run by Bogart.
Thalía kissing her husband, Tommy Mottola at her Macy's Thalía Collection. Thalía was in a relationship with actor Fernando Colunga from 1995 to 1996 while they appeared on the series María la del Barrio. [132] Thalía married music executive Tommy Mottola on 2 December 2000. [133]
Anthony C. "Tony" Mottola (April 18, 1918 – August 9, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. Mottola was born in Kearny , New Jersey and died in Denville . Career
After working as a background singer for rising pop singer Brenda K. Starr, Carey was introduced to Tommy Mottola, head of Columbia Records, at a record executives gala. [3] Accompanied by Starr, Carey handed Mottola her demo tape, featuring four of the eleven songs that would eventually comprise her debut studio album. [3]
Someone's Ugly Daughter is an alternative rock album by American band Chick. It was released on September 5, 1995, through Epic Records and 550 Music.. On September 27, 2020, American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey revealed in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey that she secretly recorded and produced the album with her friend Clarissa Dane, under the moniker "Chick".
Cory Rooney later revealed in 2016 that it was Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola who leaked the song. Rooney and Lopez initially wanted a song titled "Glad" to be the album's lead single, but Mottola favored "Jenny from the Block". Rooney recalled: "When we played 'Jenny from the Block,' he said, 'This is your single.'