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D'Oyly Carte Island was bought by London theatre impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in the late 19th Century.

David King, a music-industry impresario played by Denzel Washington, warns his colleagues of artificial intelligence infecting a business driven by gut instinct and human sensibility.

As a songwriter, rapper, producer and record label impresario, Combs - formerly known as Puff Daddy - was one of the driving forces in hip-hop and R&B in the 1990s.

The evening news experiment with Reasoner was a short-lived disaster, but Walters found a supporter in Roone Arledge, the ABC Sports impresario who took over the news division and had an appreciation for showmanship.

Two years later, R&B impresario Clive Davis handed him a label to run, and soon Bad Boy Records dominated radio airplay.