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The music is over — at least as top dog — for Gao Xiaosong, a well-known singer-songwriter who is stepping down as chairman of a Beijing-based music affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba.
Gao has also stepped down as the legal representative of Ali Music Group, according to a Monday listing on the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System website. Zhu Shunyan, the current president of Ali Innovation Group, took on both roles.
Alibaba Music Group, whose legal name is Beijing Alibaba Music Technology Co. Ltd., was founded in February 2016, and is 90% owned by Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s Hangzhou Ali Venture Capital Co. Ltd. The remaining 10% is split equally between Gao and Song Ke, another famous music producer.
A similar transition occurred back in February, when Zhu took over from Gao as legal representative of Hangzhou Alibaba Music Technology Co. Ltd., a full-owned unit of Alibaba Music Group.
At that time of the February transition, Gao denied he was leaving the company he co-founded. “In fact, I resigned as chairman of Ali Music in 2016,” he said on his Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. He added that he was still serving as chairman of another Alibaba-affiliated entity, the Alibaba entertainment strategy committee charged with internationalizing the company’s Ali Entertainment division.
“I have not left Ali, and will not leave in the future either,” he said in the February post.
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