Dee Kay Records based in Vaasa, Finland is a music label founded in 1998 by Ann and Pia Slangar, also known as Ann Dee & Pia Kay. Artists like Mirella, Jennie, Anna Stenlund, Kentala, Náni, Pati Hansén, Mike Estes & Brave New South were released on the label. This was all in the physical release era, before the label owners shifted the focus to songwriting and music publishing and founded Sugar House Publishing in 2004. Sugar House Publishing is today an internationally known publishing company, focusing on the Asian market. Dee Kay Records is a digital label, re-releasing its earlier catalog with some upcoming releases in the works.
In 1998 Ann & Pia started the label Dee Kay Records and built a studio in the gatehouse to the old sugar factory on Vasklot in Vaasa, Finland. The goal was to make music for the international market and to be a party in the process of making Finnish artists known internationally.
Dee Kay worked as a label, studio and management company. The first producer at the studio was Marcus Sjöberg, who also helped to put together the studio equipment. A year later Marcus moved to Stockholm, and that's when our guitarist friend Janne Hyöty started his producer career with learning the craft from scratch. Little did we know that it would lead to international recognition, not for our artists but for producers and songwriters signed to Sugar House Publishing, a music publishing company that Ann, Pia and Janne started in 2004 after gaining success in national Eurovision song Contest with Anna Stenlund, and the song "A Little Crazy". This is when the focus was shifted from releasing our own music, to writing and producing music for other labels and artists.