"Reggae is more freeform than the blues. But more important, reggae is for everyone – and we hope we can help everyone with ...

Bob Marley: One Love, a new biopic chronicling ... It also avoids dwelling on the ways that Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, the man labeled as Marley’s discoverer, wanted to market ...

Roger Steffens is a noted reggae scholar who has written eight books on Bob Marley ... of the actors playing Island Records boss Chris Blackwell, manager Don Taylor, gun-toting studio owner ...

I'd come to see him a few times, and I knew Chris Blackwell [founder of Island Records and Bob Marley cohort]. Junior knew Chris too. But it wasn't until after we finished the record with Junior ...

Bob Marley performed at the Smile Jamaica Concert ... The Wailers’ partnership with Island Records and producer Chris Blackwell led to their groundbreaking album “Catch a Fire” (1973).

Music Inspired By the Film album has won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. Presenter Queen Sheba announced the ...

Chris Blackwell—music producer and founder of ... Can you tell us about when you met Bob Marley? The Wailers—Bob, Peter, and Bunny, the band he was in at the time—came to my London office ...

In the second episode of Eras: Bob Marley, it’s 1972, and The Wailers find themselves in London. When a strange twist of fate puts them in front of Island Records’ Chris Blackwell, a new ...