Scott Borchetta is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 3, 1962 in Burbank, California, United States. Its Big Machine Records label signed His Big Machine Records label signed Taylor Swift, who would go on to win Album of the Year at the 2010 Grammys for her album Fearless., who would later be awarded the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 2010 Grammys for her album Fearless.
Borchetta was born in Burbank, California to parents Shari and Mike Borchetta. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. His father, Mike Borchetta, worked in record promotions for several Los Angeles record labels, including Capitol Records, RCA Records and Mercury Records. In 1978, when Borchetta was 16, his father moved to Nashville to start his own independent record promotion company. He continued to develop his passion for the music industry through high school and college.
Interested in life beyond Los Angeles, Scott Borchetta began to pursue his love for music. After playing in several rock bands, he left California and moved to Nashville with his father. There, Borchetta played bass in a country band and spent his days working in his father’s mail room promoting country singles. After 8 months on the road, he left his band since they were not finding success. While working with his father, Borchetta learned a great deal about the music industry and how it operates, and used this knowledge to pursue jobs at record labels. In 1985, he got a job at MTM Records, where he stayed for three years. He then spent two years working as an independent promoter before working in promotion and artist development at several other record labels, including MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville and Universal Music Nashville.
The father of his son, Mike employed as promotor for some of the most prestigious record labels such as Capitol Records and Mercury Records.
He is a fervent race car driver. His enthusiasm for racing has inspired the name Big Machine Records.
Scott C. Borchetta (born July 3, 1962) is an American record executive and entrepreneur best known for founding Big Machine Label Group. He started the label in 2005 with 13 employees, as its president/CEO and today it encompasses four imprints: Big Machine Records, BMLG Records, The Valory Music Co. and Nash Icon Records. In 2015, he became the new in-house mentor on American Idol for the program’s 14th and 15th seasons.
