Sonia Pottinger

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Sonia Pottinger (* June 1931 in Jamaica ; † 3. November 2010 ) was a Jamaican reggae - music producer . She was the first woman to work as a music producer in Jamaica in the 1960s and is considered one of the most successful and influential women in the Jamaican music business of her time.

Career

Pottinger opened the Tip Top Record Shop in Kingston in the mid-1960s . Pottinger has produced songs such as Every Night by Joe White (1966), The Whip by the Ethiopians (1967), That's Life by Delano Stewart (1968) and Marcia Griffiths ' Dreamland from 1976. She also produced recordings by Judy Mowatt and Sister Carol and much of it was released on Pottinger's label High Note.

In the 1970s she was the producer of several albums by the band Culture as well as the first recordings of Howard Barrett , who founded the Paragons a short time later . After Duke Reid's death in 1975, she took over his Treasure Isle studio . Pottinger always had a flair for finding good studio musicians, so she worked with Sly Dunbar , Robbie Shakespeare , Ernest Ranglin , Earl "Wire" Lindo , Dean Fraser , Roland Alphonso and Count Ossie, among others . In 1985 she retired from the music business.

In cooperation with the Heartbeat label, the compilation Reggae Songbirds was released in 1996 : 17 Great Tracks From the High Note Label , it contained songs by various musicians, all of which were produced by Pottinger. Also with Heartbeat was Trod On , a compilation of pieces that Pottinger had produced for Culture's three albums, Harder Than the Rest , Cumbolo and International Herb .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonia Pottinger remembered ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jamaica Observer, November 7, 2010 (Retrieved November 7, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaicaobserver.com
personal data
SURNAME Pottinger, Sonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican reggae music producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1931 or 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2010