Suzy (record label)

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One of the older Suzy Records company logos

Suzy Records (in croatian language: Suzy Produkcija gramofonskih ploča) is a record label based in Zagreb, Croatia.

The company was established in the then Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1972.^[1]

Suzy released some of the important albums of the Croatian and Yugoslav rock artists Parni Valjak, BOA and Prljavo Kazalište (incl. Crno bijeli svijet). Like its bigger competitors Jugoton from Zagreb (formed in 1947) and PGP-RTB from Belgrade (formed in 1958), Suzy also released numerous foreign pop and rock stars for the domestic market incl.: Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Adam and the Ants, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Sade, Santana, Paul Simon, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper and others. Suzy closely cooperated with many international major labels such as CBS Records for instance.^[2]

After the abandonment of the socialist system and the subsequent breakup of Yugoslavia, during the 1990s the company transformed to SUZY d.o.o. (limited company).^[3] However, unlike Jugoton and PGP-RTB which changed their names to Croatia Records and PGP-RTS respectively, Suzy continued to work under the same name. Several of its older important domestic titles were re-released in cooperation with another Croatian record label Hit Records during the 2000s.^[4]