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Chris Blackwell (born June 22, 1937) is the founder of Island Records. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. Born in London to an Irish father and a Costa Rican-born Sephardic Jewish mother, Blackwell spent his childhood in Jamaica. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in Sephardi Jews ( Hebrew: ספרדי, Standard Səfardi Tiberian Səp̄arədî; plural PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. He was sent to England to continue his education. Deciding not to go to university, he returned to Jamaica to become ADC to the Governor of Jamaica Sir Hugh Foot. An aide-de-camp ( French for camp assistant) is a personal assistant secretary or Adjutant to a person of high rank usually a senior military officer Hugh Mackintosh Foot Baron Caradon, GCMG KCVO OBE PC ( 8 October 1907 – 5 September 1990) was After Sir Hugh Foot was transferred to Cyprus he left Kings House and dabbled in real estate and other businesses which brought him into contact with the Jamaican music community. He formed Island Records in 1959 and was one of the first to record Jamaican popular music that became known as ska music. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ska ( pronounced /ska/ or in Jamaican Patois /skja/ is a Music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and which was the precursor In 1962 he went back to England and sold records out of the back of his car to the UK's black Jamaican population. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

From this beginning, Blackwell progressed to bringing in licenced master tapes and one of these contained a performance of Millie Small who he brought over to England at 15 years of age and produced "My Boy Lollipop" in 1964 which sold 6 million records worldwide and that started Island Records on the road in mainstream popular music. Millie, born Millicent Small 6 October 1946 in Clarendon, Jamaica) " My Boy Lollipop " is a Song written in the mid-1950s and usually credited to Robert Spencer Morris Levy and Johnny Roberts Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. He started signing white groups to the label, starting with The Spencer Davis Group, featuring Steve Winwood. The Spencer Davis Group was a mid 1960s British Beat group from Birmingham, England, founded by Spencer Davis (born 17 July 1939 Stephen Lawrence "Steve" or "Stevie" Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English Singer-songwriter Island became one of the most successful independent labels of the 1960s and 1970s with bands like Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Free, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Sparks and Emerson Lake and Palmer. Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. Spooky Tooth were an English Progressive rock band from the late 1960s King Crimson is a Progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969 Free were an English Rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song " All Right Now " Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974 was an English Singer-songwriter and Musician best known for his acoustic autumnal songs Sparks is an American rock and Pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron (keyboards and Russell Mael (vocals Emerson Lake & Palmer ( ELP) were an English Progressive rock supergroup. Island Records was also the first home for Chrysalis Records and Virgin Records and the American Label Sue Records who produced Jimmy McGriff, The Soul Sisters and Ike and Tina Turner. Chrysalis Records was a British Record label that was created in 1969 Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell Sue Records was founded in 1957 by Henry 'Juggy' Murray in New York City. James Harrell McGriff ( April 3, 1936 -- May 24, 2008) was a Hard bop and Soul-jazz Organist and Organ trio Ike & Tina Turner were an American Rock & roll and soul duo made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner Eventually Island moved into movies and released in England The Harder They Come featuring Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican Crime film directed by Perry Henzell. Jimmy Cliff OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948, Somerton District St This film, produced and directed by fellow Jamaican Perry Henzell, was the spark that brought reggae music to the world. Perry Henzell (b March 7 1936, Annotto Bay St Mary's Jamaica - d Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s Blackwell's real coup however lay in bringing Bob Marley and the Wailers to international audiences. Bob Marley & The Wailers was a Reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Ronald 9F Jauculan left Blackwell also formed Mango Records that featured Jamaican and other artists from the third world. Mango Records was a London based subsidiary of Island Records. Third World is a name given to nations that are generally considered to be underdeveloped economically This label introduced Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Third World, Salif Keita, Baaba Maal, Angelique Kidjo and many others. Winston Rodney OD (born March 1, 1948) also known as Burning Spear, is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots Black Uhuru, formed by Derrick "Duckie" Simpson is a Jamaican Reggae band probably best known for their hits "Shine Eye Gal" "Guess Third World is a name given to nations that are generally considered to be underdeveloped economically Salif Keita (born August 25, 1949) is an internationally recognized Afro-pop Singer - Songwriter from Mali. Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and Guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award -winning Beninese Singer-songwriter, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative Music videos

Each of his companies was eventually sold to Polygram, and are as of 1998 part of the Universal Music Group conglomerate, but Blackwell left with a reputation for looking after artists as diverse as Bob Marley, U2, Cat Stevens, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, Melissa Etheridge, Tom Waits, The Cranberries, Richard Thompson and PJ Harvey. PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the Major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945 Universal Music Group (UMG is the largest Business group and family of Record labels in the Recording industry. Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948 best known by his former Stage name Cat Stevens, is a British Musician Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948) is a Jamaican €“ American Singer, model and actress Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961, in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an Academy Award -winning and two-time Grammy Award Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American Singer-songwriter, Composer, and Actor. The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1990 Richard John Thompson (born 3 April 1949 in Notting Hill Gate, West London) is a British songwriter Guitar player Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English Musician and Songwriter.

Since selling those companies, he has gone on to found Palm Pictures, a media entertainment company with music, film and DVD releases. Palm Pictures is a US based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell.

Blackwell is currently associated with Island Outpost, which operates or markets a group of high-end resorts in Jamaica and the Bahamas. The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent sovereign English -speaking country consisting of two thousand Cays and Goldeneye, the previous home of Ian Fleming where he wrote all the James Bond books is among the most exclusive of these resorts. Blackwell is currently concentrating on developing this property into a community of villas and beach cottages each with their own private access to the sea.

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