Lisa Cortes

American record company executive, artist manager and film maker based in New York. She was born in Milford, Connecticut.

She made career in her early life, when she became executive for young record company [l4241] in the 1980's. Eventually, she co-founded [l882158] and became president of A&R at [l25241] in the early 1990's, where she signed Hip Hop artists.

She founded and was president of the label [l=Loose Cannon], where she became first female Afro-American owner of a major label.

After a trip to India, she left the music inductry behind and started film-making. Finally, she founded her own film copmany Cortés Filmworks.