Dolphin Music is an online music shop, part of Dolphin Enterprises Europe Ltd. It first began in Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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 in 1999

1999 in music

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Robert Williams (11 September 1979 — 2 March 2009) and Jason Tavaria, while still at Liverpool University, used their credit cards & student loans to set up a company that would sell musical equipment by mail order and over the internet. .

Between 1999 - 2008 Dolphin Music grew into one of the leading online music retailers in the UK.