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Prior to his leaving Coverdale was actually about to fold the band but executives at Geffen Records ( with whom  Whitesnake  had recently signed with in the US only outside the US they remained with EMI ) asked  Coverdale  to continue working with guitarist John Sykes as they saw potential in the two .
 employee of: Whitesnake, Coverdale
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: cities of residence, top members employees, members, alternate names, origin, state or provinces of residence, title of person, spouse, city of headquarters, NA, founded by, state or province of headquarters, employee of, countries of residence, country of birth, founded, subsidiaries, country of headquarters 
Text: {0} 
Answer:
 employee of: Whitesnake, Coverdale