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Performer

Chris Blackwell

Style

production music

Country

United Kingdom

Listenings: 22
Listeners: 3

Performer description

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history."

Participated in

Black Uhuru Bob Marley Bob Marley & The Wailers Bob Marley and the Wailers Grace Jones Hi-Tension Jim Capaldi Melissa Etheridge Robert Plant Steve Winwood The B-52's The Spencer Davis Group Traffic Was (Not Was) Womack and Womack