"who is this Chinese lady with this big Jamaican accent?"

March 23, 2021 7:25 AM

The 4-Foot-11 Grandma Who Rules Reggae. TheDailyBeast.com takes a look at the 50+ year career of Patricia Chin, the co-founder of VP Records, the largest independent reggae record label in the world. “What Berry Gordy was to Motown, Patricia Chin is to VP Records and the reggae industry.”

Previously on MetaFilter on the cross-pollination between Chinese producers and reggae, from a mefiprojects-posted comic on the topic.

posted by soundguy99 (3 comments total)

Thanks for posting this. In the mid-nineties, I was a booking agent at an agency that worked with many of the artists on her label.
posted by remo at 8:13 AM on March 23, 2021 [1 favorite]

Thanks for posting this, I had no idea. I'm certainly no expert but have fallen much more in love with all flavors of Jamaican music thanks to Kid Hop's show Positive Vibrations on KEXP. There's nothing better than a sunny Seattle Saturday morning listening to reggae and dub with a cup of coffee (and depending on your proclivities, maybe a hit or three). This book that Miss Pat has coming out sounds like something I should keep my eye out for.
posted by friendlyjuan at 10:34 AM on March 23, 2021

Thanks for sharing—this Bandcamp article might be of interest.
posted by box at 12:48 PM on March 23, 2021