found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Aug. 16, 2019(Henri Belolo, record producer, promoter and executive, born 27 November 1936, Casablanca, Morocco; died 3 August 2019. The record producer and label boss Henri Belolo, who has died aged 82, helped define the "Eurodisco" genre of the later disco era in the second half of the 1970s. With the groups he created, the Ritchie Family and especially Village People, Belolo took this European-influenced pop-dance music to commercial success in the US and globally. A producer of French pop for Polydor in Paris who had set up his own label, Belolo had moved to the US in 1973 to be closer to the new dance music he had been licensing in Europe. He opened a New York office as Can't Stop Productions, and a smaller talent-scouting operation in Philadelphia. In 1960 Belolo took up a job at Polydor in Paris. The bulk of his work there was in French pop, and he produced albums by the singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki and the film stars Serge Reggiani and Jeanne Moreau. In 1970 he left to set up his own label, Carabine, followed in 1976 by a publishing company, Scorpio music, which he ran until 2010, when his son, Anthony, took over)
