Chris Blackwell

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Christopher Percy Gordon “Chris” Blackwell was born in Westminster, London to a mother of Jamaican ancestry on June 22, 1937.  He is a businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, recording home of Bob Marley, which has been called “one of Britain’s great independent labels”.

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