RMM Records & Video

RMM Records & Video

RMM Records, also known as RMM Records & Video Corp, was an independent Latin music record label based in New York City. In 1972, a Fania Records promoter named Ralph Mercado established RMM Management, an artist management and booking agency, and soon after in 1987, RMM Records was founded. Recording, promoting and touring artists recorded for the label throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, over 14 years of seasoned and new talented tropical music stars which included Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Oscar D'León, Eddie Palmieri, Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Miranda, José Alberto 'El Canario', Tony Vega, Tito Nieves, Johnny Rivera, Ray Sepúlveda, Domingo Quiñones, Miles Peña, Orquesta Guayacan, Conjunto Clasico, Manny Manuel, the New York Band, Marc Anthony, and Linda Caballero known as La India. The label also recorded the Fania All-Stars, a group of singers and studio musicians from the heyday of Fania Records, the powerhouse salsa label from the 1960s and 1970s. Other talented and famed artists were musical directors, pianists, producers, and arrangers Sergio George and Isidro Infante.

The firm focused on salsa, Latin jazz, and merengue music and re-inventing the New York sound of Latin music for nearly a decade and a half, generating an impressive rosters of artists for the record label during the its peak in the 1990s. And to manage all of it, RMM Records employed 55 staff members and had distribution deals in 42 cities around the world, and occupying 9,000 square feet in two floors at its SoHo headquarters.