Dean Samuel

Dean Samuel is the son of industry leader, Lowell Samuel, who not only formed the Samuel Music retail store in Effingham, IL but the pioneering music wholesale company, MIDCO, in 1964. Lowell was also one of the founders of NASMD and an early supporter of the industry’s Global Economic Summits. Dean was interviewed in the store his father established in the 1940s, which Dean has been running since his father’s passing in the 1990s. Dean also worked closely with his brother who oversaw MIDCO, which was one of the first, if not the first, music wholesaler based in the center of the country.