Valentim de Carvalho is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 record label

Record label

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 founded in 1914.

History

The company started selling phonograph

Phonograph

The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

, musical instruments and music since its 1914 foundation at the Rua da Assunção, Lisbon

Lisbon

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.

It distributes EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 in Portugal

Portugal

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 since 1920.

VDC also carved names in the Portuguese music industry like Amália Rodrigues

Amália Rodrigues

Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, GCSE, GCIH, , also known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress.She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. She was one of the most important figures in the genre's development, and enjoyed a...

, António Variações

António Variações

António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career, due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, he would, under the stage name of António Variações, become one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent...

 and, most recently, Os Pontos Negros.

It has two sub-labels:Popular and NorteSul.

In 1994, the company was merged with EMI and also distributed UMG Portugal

Universal Music Group

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.As of now, JRP Group owns VdC.

VdC now sells books aside from CDs and DVDs.

Labels Distributed

• EMI
• UMG Portugal
• Disney Music Group
• RCA Records
  RCA Records
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• Som Livre
  Som Livre
  Som Livre is a Brazilian record company that was founded by Rede Globo in 1969 to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks, later expanding to record studio albums....
  
  
• Zomba Group of Companies
• HMV
  HMV
  His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...
  
  
• Decca Records
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....