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Tim DuBois (born May 4, 1948, in Southwest City, Missouri) is a Nashville, Tennessee-based music executive. He attended Oklahoma State University and received a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting. He then entered into the music business and has taken part in multiple aspects of the industry including songwriting, record labels, management, and production. DuBois has been recognized for numerous honors and awards for his contributions to the music industry. ==Early career== DuBois became a Certified Public Accountant in the 1970s and moved to Texas, where he held positions with Arthur Anderson & Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In 1977 DuBois moved to Nashville, Tennessee to foster his interests for songwriting and music. From 1977 to 1985 DuBois worked as both a publishing company staff writer and as an accounting professor at several universities including Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University, University of Tennessee. Throughout that period, DuBois composed over 20 country singles. Five of those singles, including Alabama’s "Love in the First Degree", "The Bluest Eyes in Texas" by Restless Heart and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)" by Jerry Reed, reached number 1 chart positions. DuBois opened the Nashville branch of Los Angeles-based artist management firm Fitzgerald-Hartley in 1986. Country singer Vince Gill soon joined the company’s inaugural client, Restless Heart. DuBois and Gill collaborated on some songwriting projects including 1992 Country Music Association's Song of the Year "When I Call Your Name". In 1993 Clive Davis, founder of Arista Records, appointed DuBois to open the Nashville chapter of the label. Arista Nashville sold 80 million albums in its first eleven years of business, breaking acts like Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Pam Tillis, Diamond Rio, Steve Wariner, and Brad Paisley. DuBois later joined producer Tony Brown to run Universal South Records,〔(Universal South Records )〕 launching the careers of Joe Nichols, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and Shooter Jennings.〔(Tim DuBois Biography )〕 In 1991 DuBois married Pamela Smith DuBois from Dallas, Texas, a friend he had known for 15 years. They had a daughter in 1994 and named her after DuBois-James Timothy DuBois: Jamie Grace DuBois. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim DuBois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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