Lucian Grainge is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on February 29, 1960 in United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United States. Sir Lucian Charles Grainge CBE (born 29 February 1960) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group. Over the course of his career, he has worked with artists including Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Eurythmics, Rihanna, Sam Smith, Take That, Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Jamie Cullum and Andrea Bocelli. Grainge has worked in the music business for his entire career. Billboard magazine named Grainge as the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s, and the first-ever Executive of the Decade.
In 2008, Grainge received the Music Industry Trusts’ Award, which recognises the world’s most successful music executives. The award was presented by members of U2, and Take That performed at the ceremony.
Irving Azoff called him “‘the great hope for the music business'” and Jimmy Iovine commented that Grainge “is working to restore [a] spirit of risk-taking and innovation” by being “‘willing and open to entrepreneurship and that kind of thing the record industry has gotten depleted of.'” An interview feature in Billboard described Grainge as “a fierce and tireless advocate for the recorded-music business”. In 2013, CNET wrote that “Grainge is positioning Universal to lead the pack” of major labels in their embracing of new digital opportunities. A 2014 front-page Los Angeles Times profile said that “if anyone can save the music business, it might be Grainge.”
Billboard named Grainge as the first-ever Executive of the Decade after he topped the magazine’s “Power 100” list as the most powerful person in the music business in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2019. He is the only person to ever hold that distinction more than once and for consecutive years.
In 2002, Grainge married his second wife, Caroline. Their daughter was born in 2001. In November 2012 Grainge and his wife reportedly paid US$13 million for a house in Pacific Palisades. They had previously leased a Brentwood home from the owner of Rhino Entertainment.
