REPUBLIC Collective strikes three way partnership with ZIZA Inc. targeted on breaking South Asian artists globally
REPUBLIC Collective has partnered with media and leisure firm ZIZA Inc. to launch ZIZA Information, a brand new label targeted on growing and scaling South Asian artists on a world stage.
The multi-year worldwide three way partnership was introduced on Thursday (June 11).
ZIZA Inc. is a New York-based firm based by entrepreneur Shivam Malhotra, who additionally serves as CEO of Malsons.
ZIZA Information will function on the intersection of South Asia and key worldwide markets, with a concentrate on diaspora-driven expertise, catalog improvement, and world viewers development.
“This partnership displays the continued world growth of South Asian music.”
Jeffrey Remedios, REPUBLIC Collective
“This partnership displays the continued world growth of South Asian music,” mentioned Jeffrey Remedios, President and CEO of REPUBLIC Collective.
“Shivam and the ZIZA workforce have constructed a powerful basis within the area, and we see a possibility to develop that internationally collectively.”
Malhotra enters the partnership following the expansion of Malsons Ventures, claimed to be “one of the vital influential unbiased forces within the South Asian music ecosystem,” which the corporate says has contributed to over 10 billion streams globally.
Malhotra and his corporations have labored alongside artists together with Shubh and Dhanda Nyoliwala, amongst others.
“REPUBLIC Collective represents the gold normal of contemporary music tradition and world artist improvement,” mentioned Malhotra.
“For us, this partnership is the start of a long-term motion to place South Asian music on the middle of the worldwide mainstream.
“Jeffrey, Avery, and the whole Republic workforce perceive each the cultural worth and the business scale of what’s coming subsequent.
“Their perception in our imaginative and prescient, mixed with their unmatched world infrastructure, makes Republic the perfect companion to construct ZIZA Information right into a defining power for this technology of artists.
“Collectively, we’re making a platform that won’t solely break expertise globally however reshape how the world experiences South Asian music.”
“Jeffrey, Avery, and the whole Republic workforce perceive each the cultural worth and the business scale of what’s coming subsequent.”
Shivam Malhotra, ZIZA Inc
The three way partnership will prioritize signing and growing artists from the South Asian diaspora, notably these with traction in North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and the Center East.
It is going to additionally concentrate on unlocking catalog alternatives by way of world distribution, sync, and advertising and marketing, with extra plans spanning model partnerships, stay experiences, and cross-market collaborations, in response to REPUBLIC.
The deal is the most recent in a wave of main label joint ventures concentrating on South Asian music and the South Asian diaspora.
Warner Music Group launched its 5 Junction JV with entrepreneur Anjula Acharia in April 2025, geared toward breaking US-based artists of South Asian heritage in partnership with Warner Information.
Sony Music Leisure struck its personal JV with D36 in 2024, concentrating on South Asian artists and diaspora audiences.
Elsewhere inside Common Music Group, the corporate has made a sequence of strikes within the area, together with the acquisition of UK-based South Asian music label Oriental Star Companies in January 2024 and the launch of Desi Trill Music, a JV with Roc Nation co-founder Ty Ty Smith, in 2023.
REPUBLIC itself has additionally been increasing its roster of worldwide JVs, forming a partnership with Savan Kotecha‘s Visva Information in July 2025, which additionally carries an India-facing part on its roster.
Remedios was appointed to the REPUBLIC Collective in February 2025 after a decade main Common Music Canada.Music Enterprise Worldwide
