Ilene Berns, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIlene Berns
American record company executive
Date of Birth: 01-May-1943
Date of Death: 20-Feb-2017
Profession: music executive
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Ilene Berns
- Ilene Berns (born Ilene Holub; May 1, 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio – February 20, 2017 in Miami, Florida) was a record company director. Born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Ohio, Berns worked as a go-go dancer in New York City nightclubs before meeting her husband Bert Berns, the songwriter and record producer and founder of Bang Records.
- They had three children. Bert died of heart failure on December 30, 1967, leaving Ilene as a 24-year old widow.
- She subsequently re-released material from such Bang Records artists as Van Morrison and Neil Diamond, and discovered Mississippi singer-songwriter Paul Davis.
- She relocated Bang Records to Atlanta, Georgia in 1970 and presided over a decade of success with Davis ("Ride 'Em Cowboy", "I Go Crazy", "Sweet Life"); she also signed and developed Atlanta-based R&B funk group Brick ("Dazz") and singer-songwriter Peabo Bryson. Berns sold Bang Records to Columbia Records in 1979.
- She died in February 2017, aged 73.
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