Chris Blackwell’s storied carrier working with the world’s most famous artists is being chronicled in a memoir: “The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond” (out June 7 and available to pre ...

The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond, the newly released Gallery Books memoir from pioneering music executive and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, would have been an amazing read even ...

They are Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records, one of the U.K.’s most successful independent labels; Angélique Kidjo, dubbed “Africa’s premier diva” by Time; and Arvo Pärt, who ...

NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY AGO, when Chris Blackwell bought Pantrepant—a 2,500-acre cattle farm in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, 29 miles inland from Montego Bay—his entrepreneurial dreams lay ...

CHRIS BLACKWELL (FOUNDER, ISLAND RECORDS): It was in the early '60s. He had started and was produced by a well-known Jamaican producer called Lee Perry, who's really a brilliant guy.

Compared to larger-than-life music moguls such as Malcolm McLaren, Tony Wilson or Alan McGee, Chris Blackwell is a much more low-key individual. Blackwell founded Island Records in Jamaica in 1959.

Record producer Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is probably best known for discovering Bob Marley and introducing the world to reggae music. But the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member ...

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Forty years ago this month, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell introduced the world to Bob Marley and the Wailers with the groundbreaking album Catch a Fire. The seminal work smoothly blended ...

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, Africa’s premier diva Angélique Kidjo and one of the world’s most performed classical composers, Arvo Pärt, were honored as Laureates at the royal ...

CHRIS BLACKWELL (FOUNDER, ISLAND RECORDS): It was in the early '60s. He had started and was produced by a well-known Jamaican producer called Lee Perry, who's really a brilliant guy.