November 18, 2019

The lady who discovered Sean Paul still in the office after 60 years - "If I don’t keep busy, I get bored!"

In 1958 Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin and her husband Vincent “Randy” Chin set up a stall selling off old 45s, and, as new Jamaican styles of mento, ska, rock-steady, then reggae emerged, opened a shop, a distribution company and then a studio. In the 1970s, political violence in Kingston got out of hand, and the family shut the studio and relocated to Brooklyn, nurturing careers of superstars including Maxi Priest, Bounty Killer, Lady Saw, Beenie Man, Ini Kamoze and Sean Paul. This year, 82-year-old dancehall and reggae svengali Chin published a new 97-track anniversary box set. Guardian has the story.+