Chris Blackwell

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English record producer

United Kingdom MusiciansLived 1937 to 2009 · aged 72

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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".

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2023Polar Music Prize

2006Grammy Trustees Award

2001Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Musgrave Medal

MOJO Awards

Order of Jamaica

Connected to Chris 6

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Glen CampbellAlso in Third World Cop (1999)

Lol CremeAlso in The Lunatic (1991)

Julianne PhillipsAlso in Sweet Lies (1987)

Gailard SartainAlso in Choose Me (1984)Kathleen BrennanAlso in Tom Waits: Big Time (1988)

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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."

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