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| - Chris Blackwell (born June 22, 1937) is the founder of Island Records. Born in London to an Irish father and a Costa Rican-born Sephardic Jewish mother, Blackwell spent his childhood in Jamaica. 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. 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. In 1962 he went back to England and sold records out of the back of his car to the UK's black Jamaican population. 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. He started signing white groups to the label, starting with The Spencer Davis Group, featuring Steve Winwood. 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. 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. Eventually Island moved into movies and released in England The Harder They Come featuring Jimmy Cliff. This film, produced and directed by fellow Jamaican Perry Henzell, was the spark that brought reggae music to the world. Blackwell's real coup however lay in bringing Bob Marley and the Wailers to international audiences. Blackwell also formed Mango Records that featured Jamaican and other artists from the third world. This label introduced Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Third World, Salif Keita, Baaba Maal, Angelique Kidjo and many others. 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. Since selling those companies, he has gone on to found Palm Pictures, a media entertainment company with music, film and DVD releases. Blackwell is currently associated with Island Outpost, which operates or markets a group of high-end resorts in Jamaica and the Bahamas. 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. (en)
- Chris Blackwell (né le 22 juin 1937) est un blanc jamaïcain d'origine juive sépharade, venant d'un milieu aisé, il fait partie des personnes à l'origine de la naissance de l'industrie musicale jamaïcaine et de l'expansion internationale du reggae. Passionné de musique, il enregistre un album de jazz qui sort sous le label Island Records, et qui deviendra son label avec lequel il enregistre des dizaines d'artistes.À partir de 1959, il est le premier à enregistrer des dub plates et à les tester dans les sounds systems. S'ils ont du succès, il les fait presser aux États-Unis. Devant un tel succès, il fonde Island à Londres en 1962, année de l'indépendance de la Jamaïque et par conséquent d'émigration; ainsi, il exporte la musique de l'île, la prédestinant à un grand succès international. (fr)
- 30px|Stub Questa voce Categoria:Stub da classificareCategoria:Stub da classificare è solo un abbozzo: contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. 30px|Stub Questa voce Categoria:Stub da classificare è solo un abbozzo: contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. Nato a Londra da padre irlandese e madre costaricana sefardita, Blackwell passò la sua infanzia in Giamaica, finché non venne mandato in Inghilterra per motivi di studio. Avendo deciso di non intraprendere gli studi universitari, tornò in Giamaica e divenne l'attendente del Governatore Sir Hugh Foot. Dopo che egli venne trasferito a Cipro, Blackquell intraprese una carriera d'affari che lo portò a contatto con la comunità musicale giamaicana. Nel 1959 fondò la Island Records, e fu uno dei primi a produrre album di quella musica popolare giamaicana che sarebbe diventata famosa con il nome di ska. (it)
- Chris Blackwell (* 22. Juni 1937 in London, England) ist ein Rockmusik-Produzent, der vor allem als Gründer von Island Records Berühmtheit erlangt hat. Blackwell wuchs größtenteils in Jamaika auf, wo er 1959 auch Island Records ins Leben rief. Die erste veröffentlichte Aufnahme war ein Jazz-Album von dem Pianisten Lance Haywood aus Bermuda. Ab 1960 begann Blackwell nun vor allem jamaikanische Popmusik zu produzieren, mit Laurel Aitkens Little Sheila machte er einen Number-1-Hit auf der Insel. 1962 kam ein Büro in Großbritannien hinzu. Die Spencer Davis Group und Millie gehörten zu den ersten Interpreten, die Island unter Vertrag nahm, auch im Bereich des Reggae hatte das Label mit Toots & the Maytals, den Skatalites und Jackie Edwards eine gute Bandbreite von Künstlern. Nachdem dann 1967 Traffic bei Island unterschrieben, begann sich das Label mehr und mehr in Richtung Rock zu bewegen. Bis zum Beginn der 1970er Jahre produzierte Blackwell unter anderem Alben von Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Blind Faith, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Free und Roxy Music. 1973 war Blackwell dann Produzent von Bob Marleys Catch a Fire, womit Island dann auch wieder Reggae-Aufnahmen zu veröffentlichen begann, darunter welche von Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie und Third World. Marley sollte bis zu seinem Tod 1981 einer der wichtigsten Sänger des Labels bleiben. Ende der 1970er Jahre bereiste Blackwell dann die USA, um auch dort Interpreten für sein Label zu gewinnen. Zu den Bands und Musikern, die Island in den 1980ern unter Vertrag hatte, gehören unter anderem U2, The Pogues, Robert Palmer, Melissa Etheridge, Tom Waits, Anthrax, The Cranberries und Julian Cope. Mit dem Sublabel Mango und King Sunny Ade brachte Blackwell auch Weltmusik zu Island Records. 1989 verkaufte Blackwell das Label dann an A&M Records und trennte sich 1997 vollständig von ihm. 2001 wurde Blackwell in der Kategorie „Non-Performers“ in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Gemeinsam mit dem Trip Hop-Musiker Tricky gründete Chris Blackwell 2007 eine neue Plattenfirma namens "Brown Punk Records". (de)
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