American music journalist, songwriter. musician, record producer, record company executive and novelist. Sigerson went to school and university in the UK. He wrote for Black Music, Sounds and Melody Maker, and was the disco columnist for Time Out. In 1979 he moved back to New York as American correspondent for Melody Maker, also writing about music for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
In the 1980s he released two solo albums for Ze/Island Records and wrote songs for other artists. He became president of Polydor Records in 1991; president of EMI and Chrysalis Records in 1994; and chairman of Island Records from 1998 to 1999. His first novel, Faithful, was published in 2004.
