1937
Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
Chris Blackwell
English-Jamaican record producer (born 1937)
- Born
- 1937
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ 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."