RBW (company)


RBW is a South Korean entertainment company founded by Kim Jin-woo and Kim Do-hoon The label is home to artists such as Mamamoo, Vromance, Jin-Ju, Onewe and Oneus.

History

Kim Jin-woo originally is the representative director of Cube Entertainment's Music Cube. Kim Jin-woo was in charge of the practice room rental business and then expanded his business with opening AN Bridge, Rainbow Bridge Academy and ENB Academy Practical Music Academy, which integrated under the name Modern & Bridge. In March 2010, he later established the first OEM company, Rainbow Bridge Agency, which operates to train students who are not trainees with similar process as the regular entertainment company, such as vocal, dance, acting, language, etc.
In August 2011, Hwang Sung-jin and Kim Do-hoon joined Kim Jin-woo's Modern & Bridge and took representative and director positions.
In March 2012, Kim Do-hoon joined corporation with Rainbow Bridge Agency’s established music label, WA Entertainment.
In August 2012, WA Entertainment along with Brand New Music debuted Hip hop trio Phantom. In December 2012, Hip hop duo Geeks signed with WA Entertainment.
In June 2014, WA Entertainment debuted their first girl group Mamamoo.
In August 2014, RBW debuted composer Esna as a solo singer.
In September 2014, WA Entertainment along with TSN Entertainment debuted brother duo OBROJECT.
In March 2015, WA Entertainment merged with Rainbow Bridge Agency to create an independent label RBW. In September 2015, Yangpa signed with RBW. In December 2015, rapper Basick and Big Tray signed with RBW.
In June 2016, Monday Kiz signed with RBW. In July 2016, RBW debuted vocal group Vromance.
In June 2017, RBW confirmed that rock band M.A.S 0094 joined the label, as well as the changing of the band name to MAS.
In June 2018, RBW revealed that MAS would re-debut under the name "ONEWE" and RBW BOYZ as "ONEUS"
In October 2018, RBW debuted Jin-Ju.
In January 2019, RBW debuted ONEUS. In May 2019, RBW re-debuted ONEWE.
In February 2020, RBW debuted D1VERSE.

Subsidiaries

Sub-labels

Cloud R

On May 27, 2016, RBW joint cooperation with Lee Seong-yeon established the independent sub-label. It was house to M.A.S 0094, a 5-member rock band managed by Modern Music. Its management was transferred to RBW in 2017 and they redebuted as Onewe in 2019 under the main label.

All Right Music

All Right Music is an independent Hip hop label headed by rapper Basick and RBW producer Im Sang-hyuk. Established in March 2017, the label was set up by RBW to focused hip hop scene. It was introduced their first artist: Big Tray, Marvel J and B.O.

RBW Vietnam

In 2017, RBW established a sub agency in Vietnam for future auditions and artist development in the region. The label introduced its first artist Jin Ju, a Korean student who won on the Vietnamese singing competition program Masked Singer, in 2018 with her debut single "Petal", released in both Korean and Vietnamese.
RBW launched the Vietnamese boy band D1Verse in February 2020. The group was formed by an all-Vietnamese cast and it was the first vocal group in Vietnam to be produced and managed by a K-pop label.

Modern RBW

RBW producer Kim Hyunkyu and Modern K Music Academy combined to form a new sub-label "Modern RBW" which aims to promote aspiring artists to try get recognised with a projects series release of singles.

Artists

Recording artists

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Groups

Groups

2014

All Right Music