The Spectra Music Group is a United States music company founded in February 1997 comprising the independent record company

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 Spectra Records—which is based in the United States and Canada.

Labels and projects

Spectra Records is an American record label founded in 1997. Spectra Records was launched originally as a rock-music-only label in 1997. By 1998, the label's musical base was expanded to include all genres of music. In 2010, Spectra added the Spectra Jazz division to include a wide variety of jazz genres including traditional, bop, latin, and contemporary styles.

Spectra Records publishing company is Artceps Music. This was started in 1997 when the label was formed. Artceps Music is simply Spectra spelled backwards.

Musicians

Among its many acts, it currently includes Lou Gramm

Lou Gramm

Lou Gramm is an American rock vocalist and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist and co-writer of many of the songs for the rock band Foreigner. He also had a successful solo career...

, T.Rex, Magni

Magni Ásgeirsson

Guðmundur Magni Ásgeirsson , is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also currently the frontman for the Icelandic pop band Á Móti Sól. Outside of Iceland, he is most famous for being a contestant on the CBS reality show Rock Star: Supernova.-Biography:The third of four children, Magni was...

, Lullwater, Cutting Crew

Cutting Crew

The Cutting Crew is a pop rock band formed in England in 1985, best known for their #1 hit, " Died in Your Arms".-Career:Vocalist Nick Van Eede founded the group along with Canadian guitarist Kevin MacMichael in 1985, and the two made demos that led to a recording contract, before bassist Colin...

, Taj Weekes, Robbie Dupree

Robbie Dupree

Robert Dupuis , better known by his stage name Robbie Dupree, is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1980 top ten pop hit, "Steal Away"....

, Transmission Fields, Down Theory, Kizzy Star, Paul Young

Paul Young (singer and guitarist)

Paul Antony Young is an English pop musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & The Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, his following solo success as a solo recording artist turned him into a 1980s teenage pop idol...

 and The Hitchers

The Hitchers

The Hitchers are a band from Limerick City, Ireland who formed in early January 1989.-History:Timeline:*6 January 1989: “10.6 Rothmans & a Stolen Barrel of Heineken Please” officially shorten their moniker to “The Hitchers” – a name derived from the Rutger Hauer ‘80s road movie, The Hitcher.*20...

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Some artists signed to Spectra Heritage label are Spanky and Our Gang

Spanky and Our Gang

Spanky and Our Gang was an American 1960s folk-rock band led by Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. The band derives its name from Hal Roach's popular Our Gang comedies of the 1930s...

, The Rip Chords, The Shirts

The Shirts

The Shirts are a New York-based American power pop band, which was formed in 1975. The band’s early existence was closely linked with CBGB, a music club in the Bowery, but it reformed with many of the early members in 2003 and is currently active.-The CBGB years, 1975-1981:The Shirts had their...

, Tuff Darts

Tuff Darts

Tuff Darts is an American punk rock band. They were one of the first bands to establish an audience at CBGB. They reached their greatest fame in the mid-late 1970s with such songs as "Slash", " Nuclear Waste" and their biggest hit single, "All For The Love of Rock and Roll." The band appeared at...

, Nazz, The Shadows of Knight.

Some other Spectra artists include Wicked Jones, Steve Whalley, Brendan Keeley, Rock Star: Supernova's Magni Ásgeirsson

Magni Ásgeirsson

Guðmundur Magni Ásgeirsson , is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also currently the frontman for the Icelandic pop band Á Móti Sól. Outside of Iceland, he is most famous for being a contestant on the CBS reality show Rock Star: Supernova.-Biography:The third of four children, Magni was...

, Orleans

Orleans (band)

Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance with Me" , "Still the One", from the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time" . The group's name evolved from the music it was playing at the time of their formation, which was inspired by Louisiana artists such as Allen...

, Phil Jones, Transmission Fields, HalfBrother Sid, Eldorado, Los Musicos de Jose, S.M.O., Columbia, Liza Lee, Michelle Rounds, Matt Cusson, Champian Fulton, Chris Massey, Butch Thomas, Steve Barton

Steve Barton (musician)

Steve Barton is an American rock musician and songwriter best known for his work with the band Translator.Born in Los Angeles to actor parents, Dan and Anne Barton, music got into his blood at an early age...

, Gadwin, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, ShanyTown, Noughts and Exes and numerous others.