Denzyl Feigelson

Denzyl Feigelson, CEO AWAL (Artists Without A Label)

A lifelong musician and trained music-therapist, Denzyl has had the opportunity to personally manage and work closely with many of the world's most popular and most diverse artists. Hailing from South Africa, he has guided and discovered the careers of some of the African continents' most successful artists. He was instrumental in the worldwide success of Paul Simon's groundbreaking album "Graceland" and produced the 1st grand-scale multi-racial “Concert in the Park” in South Africa (1982) attended by over 250,000 people.

Denzyl has been a strategic consultant to Apple since 2001 in multi-aspects of the music business, including digital, music licensing, creative, retail and live-events. Since its initial launch in 2003, Denzyl has been an integral part of the Apple iTunes success (over 2 billion tracks sold!). He has worked across 17 countries and has been responsible for the editorial direction and programming of all genres of music. Denzyl is currently in charge of editorial programming for the UK iTunes Music Store. He is in charge of selecting all featured content as well as leading campaigns to maximize sales, spotting new trends and developing and discovering new artists.

Denzyl is the founder and CEO of AWAL (Artists Without A Label), which is a pure-play digital music label representing over 1,000 artists. AWAL has been instrumental in the discovery and digital-incubation of unsigned talent: (Arctic Monkeys, Editors, Tina Dico, Kate Havnevik, Klaxons, Orson…to name a few)