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Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
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Chris Blackwell
English record producer (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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Island Records
Multinational record label
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in Jamaica by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in 1959, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)