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Pete Ganbarg is a Grammy Award winning music business executive who is currently President of A&R for Atlantic Records.
Pete started his career in A&R in 1989 at SBK Records. When SBK ceased operations in the late-1990s, Pete joined Clive Davis at Arista Records as Sr. Director, A&R. The first artist he worked with at Arista was Santana, for whom Pete conceived and A&R’d the 30X Platinum World Wide, 9X Grammy Winning Album of the Year, Supernatural.
In early 2001, Pete left Arista and joined Epic Records as Sr. Vice President, A&R.
Pete left Epic in late 2003 to start his own A&R consulting business, Pure Tone Music. Pure Tone’s label clients included Arista Records, RCA Records, Virgin Records, and Atlantic Records. Company projects included albums by Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, David Cook, Halestorm,Train,Santana, Kenny G, Aaron Neville, America, Donna Summer, and Chaka Khan.
He joined Atlantic Records as Executive Vice President/Head of A&R in mid-October 2008 and was named President of A&R in late 2017.
Ganbarg is a graduate of Wesleyan University.