Melvin Brown (music manager)

Melvin Brown is an American record executive and talent manager. Brown, a relative of fellow music executive Johnny Wright, is credited with having discovered Senegalese-American singer Akon in 2002. The following year, Brown, Akon, and the latter's brother Bu Thaim co-founded the record label, Konvict Muzik, as an imprint of Universal Motown Records. Konvict has signed artists including T-Pain, Cyhi the Prynce, and Verse Simmonds.