Christopher Percy Gordon Chris Blackwell is an English businessman and 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.
Forming Island Records in Jamaica on 22 May 1959 aged 22, Blackwell was amongst the first to record the Jamaican popular music that even...
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