# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-blackwell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:11:47.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-blackwell"
name: "Chris Blackwell"
slug: "chris-blackwell"
description: "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.\""
tagline: "English record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Blackwell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-06-22"
deathDate: "2009"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.00486133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085889/"
    handle:    "nm0085889"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell"
    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell"
    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Блэквелл, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Chris Blackwell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump