Label owner Michael Gudinski, known for discovering Kylie Minogue and furthering the career of Jimmy Barns, has said Alexanda is one of the most talented and energetic young performers he's seen in recent years.

Mushroom Records was an Australian record label formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972.

Michael Gudinski has since expanded a pre-existing label, Liberation Music, to release material by former Mushroom artists.

In 1981 Gudinski started White Label Records, an alternative Mushroom label, to release innovative music, with signings such as Hunters & Collectors, Machinations, Painters and Dockers, Kids in the Kitchen and The Stems.

Michael Gudinski signed the band to a management and publishing deal and a recording contract with his Mushroom Records label.

In October 1998 Allen married Mark, and at that time Michael Gudinski appealed on national radio for information on Allen's whereabouts – Gudinski wanted her to perform at a televised tribute concert for the 25th anniversary of his company, Mushroom Records.

Mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through whom Gudinski signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, New Zealand's Split Enz, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others forging a string of successful releases by local talent.

Gudinski and fellow music agent Ray Evans formed Mushroom Records in late 1972.

In the early 1990s Gudinski sold 49 % of Mushroom to News Ltd, who had owned Australia's largest record label, Festival Records since 1961.

Mushroom Records UK was set up in London in 1993 by Gary Ashley, as an offshoot of the Australian independent label Mushroom Records, which had been formed in 1972 by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne.

Michael Solomon Gudinski, AM ( born 22 August 1952 ) is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman currently based in Melbourne who is a leading figure in the Australian music industry.

Gudinski began promoting rock dances around Melbourne while still in his teens and moved into music agency work in the late 1960s.

In the early 1970s Gudinski founded a short-lived music magazine, Daily Planet, but the publication failed to reach a wide audience and consistently lost money.

In 1977 Gudinski opened the music venue Bombay Bicycle Club in Bourke Street, Melbourne, soon moving it to Sydney Road Brunswick and renaming it Bombay Rock.

Gudinski is often referred to as the " father of the Australian music industry " ( a title he clearly enjoys ) but it is inaccurate and would be more fairly applied to long-serving Festival Records head Alan Hely.

The recording catalogue was sold to the Australian division of Warner Music for only A $ 10 million in October 2005, and the publishing division was sold to Michael Gudinski a month later, for an undisclosed sum.

In November 2005, shortly after the sale of Festival Mushroom's recording division to Warner Music Australia, Gudinski purchased Festival's publishing division for an undisclosed sum.

Around the same time, Gudinski was convinced to sign expatriate New Zealand band Split Enz, who had recently relocated to Australia.

Gudinski has been a highly visible public figure throughout his career and he is probably the only Australian record company executive whose name is known by the general public.

Gudinski sold the remaining 51 % share of the label to News Corporation in 1998 for a sum reported to have been around A $ 40 million.

However, the sale of Australia's last major independent label to a multinational engendered some adverse publicity, with Gudinski controversially claiming that he had sold the label as a protest at the federal government's changes to the regulations governing the parallel importation of recordings.

In December 2009, Gudinski announced that he bought the remaining 50 % he did not own from Warner Bros.

( EP, 1991 ) – which Gleeson would dedicate to Michael Gudinski or Russ Hinze at concerts.

In 2006, Gudinski asked Allen to participate in the Countdown Spectacular tour, however due to ill health, she declined.

Gudinski was born to Jewish Russian immigrants who had arrived in Australia in 1948.

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