Seymour Stein Cause of Death

American entrepreneur and record label executive, Seymour Stein has been reported dead. He died of cancer in Los Angeles on April 2, 2023.

“I grew up surrounded by music, I didn’t have the most conventional upbringing, but I wouldn’t change my life and relationship with my father for anything, and he was a loving and caring grandfather who happily savored every moment of his three granddaughters. He gave me the ultimate soundtrack, as did his wicked sense of humor. I’m eternally grateful for every minute our family spent with him and for the music he brought into the world to positively impact the lives of so many people along the way,” his daughter, Mandy Stein said in a statement.

“I am beyond grateful for every minute our family spent with him, and that the music he brought to the world impacted so many people’s lives in a positive way,” she added.

Stein was just 13 years old when he entered the music scene as a review writer for Billboard magazine. He worked at Cincinnati-based King Records in 1961. He also went to New York to work for Red Bird Records until 1966. In his mid-20s, he founded his own company, Sire Productions which soon became Sire Records, with producer-songwriter, Richard Gottehrer in Manhattan.

The company’s first releases included early blues tract by Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, the band fronted by singer Christine Perfect who would join Fleetwood Mac when she married bassist John McVie.

He was known for his most lucrative discovery happened in the early 1980s when he heard the demo tape of Madonna, who was then a less popular singer-dancer from a downtown New York club.

“I like Madonna’s voice, I like the feel, and I like the name, Madonna. I liked it all and played it again. She was all dolled up in cheap punky gear, the kind of club kid who looked absurdly out of place in a cardiac ward. She wasn’t even interested in hearing me explain how much I liked her demo. ‘The thing to do now.’ she said. is sign me to a record label,” he wrote in his memoir dubbed Siren Song which was published in 2018.