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Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) 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," while Barron's has described him as "a contender for most interesting man in the world." Having formed Island Records in Jamaica on May 22nd, 1959, coincidentally when he was nearly 22, Blackwell was among the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska. Wikipedia