Record Label

Fania Records

US label Label Code: LC 1222 / LC 01222 First known as Fania Records later label changed to just Fania. Please use always Fania Records for label. For any unofficial / bootleg / counterfeit copies of this label please use Label created in late 1963 by and that became known as the Motown of Latin music. At one time (pre-2005) the nearly 3,000 title catalog was readily available on CD. Since then, only a few hundred titles have seen the light of day due to changing ownership of the rights to the catalog and other complications. In 2005, Fania Records was acquired by Miami-based Emusica from the Masucci family. In 2009 purchased the label from eMusica. Both times a program was started to reissue the catalog on CD but the first attempt stalled when the ownership moved from Emusica to . Sometime in 2011/12 the reissue attempts of started to go out-of-print and became yet again unavailable as 's distribution was changing hand to a company called Red. On July 27, 2018, the label was sold to Concord Music.