Clive Chin (born 14 May 1954 in

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley Inter ...

) is a son of

Vincent "Randy" Chin Vincent "Randy" Chin (3 October 1937, Kingston, Jamaica – 2 February 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States) was a Jamaican record producer and label owner who ran the Randy's shop, recording studio, and record label, later moving ...

. He is a

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Chinese Jamaican

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whose work includes recordings by

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, Lee Perry and

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, among others. Chin was a pioneer in the establishment of dub as a standalone musical form.

Biography

He began working at Randy's Record Store, his father's business and began helping make the associated studio, Randy's Studio 17, one of the most important Jamaican studios of the early 1970s. Chin's first major commercial success was ''

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'', an international hit by

Augustus Pablo Horace Swaby (21 June 1953 – 18 May 1999),Thompson, Dave (2002) ''Reggae & Caribbean Music'', Backbeat Books, , p. 200-202 known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and a multi-instrumentalist, active f ...

. He had further local hits with Dennis Brown's "Cheater" and

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' "King of Babylon" and produced Pablo's debut album, '' This Is Augustus Pablo''.Larkin, Colin: "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", 1999, Virgin Books, Chin produced the ''Java Java Dub'' album in 1973, which he claims was the first ever dub album. Further local hits followed with

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's "Miss Wire Waist" and "Fattie Bum Bum", which, with the help of

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, became a UK chart hit in 1975, reaching #8. After his family business moved to

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, Chin spent some fifteen years running a Jamaican restaurant in

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. He began producing again in 1998. In 2007

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started an imprint ''17 North Parade'' to reissue some of the historic Randy's releases.

References

External links

''The story of Randy's'' videoDiscography at Discogs
Jamaican record producers Jamaican people of Chinese descent American people of Chinese descent African-American people Jamaican reggae musicians Living people People from Kingston, Jamaica 1954 births Hakka musicians {{reggae-musician-stub