Sonia Pottinger

Sonia Pottinger ( * 1943 or June 1931 in Jamaica; † 3 November 2010) was a Jamaican reggae record producer. She was in the 1960s, the first woman who worked in Jamaica as a music producer and is one of the most successful and influential women in the Jamaican music business of its time.

Career

Pottinger opened mid-1960s in Kingston the Tip Top Record Shop. Pottinger was involved as a producer on songs like Every Night by Joe White ( 1966), The Whip of the Ethiopians (1967 ), That's Life by Delano Stewart (1968) and Marcia Griffiths ' Dreamland by 1976. Also photographs of Judy Mowatt and Sister Carol have been produced by it and much of it was brought out note at Pottinger's label High.

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

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