Audrey Joseph is an American record executive, nightclub owner and manager, and LGBT rights activist.
[7] Joseph was appointed to the San Francisco Entertainment Commission by Mayor Willie L. Brown and took office in July 2003.
Soon after she moved to the Electric Circus, in Manhattan and shortly after began working in the record industry for Aria Productions and MK Dance Promotions, a company founded by Tom Cossie and Mark Kriener.
Her break in music came while working as a promoter for the Big Apple Band which specialized in bar mitzvahs and weddings.
[11] She moved to help her friend Marty Blecman run Megatone Records; after the early death of his business partner Patrick Cowley from AIDS.
To complement, Dakota & Joseph founded Club Universe which became a renowned dance club and entertainment venue and hosted shows for international stars like Grace Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Chaka Kahn, The B-52's, Blondie, and disc jockeys from around the globe.
[2][9] In November 2000, attorneys for the family of the late Jeffrey Goring, a San Jose man who died in February 2000 after collapsing on the dance floor at Club Universe, said they were filing a wrongful death lawsuit, complaining club employees waited too long to call 911 emergency services after Goring fell.
[16] The case was subsequently settled out of court and Goring was found to have no drugs in his system and had collapsed from an asthma attack; all parties in the lawsuit were bound to confidentiality.