From Billboard.com:

Andre Harrell, music mogul and founder of influential R&B and hip-hop label Uptown Records, has died. Details are if his death are not yet known, but Harrell's passing was first announced by DJ D-Nice on his Instagram Live early Saturday morning [[May 9), and sources have separately confirmed it to Billboard. He was 59.

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