Richard Bell (record producer)

Richard "Bello" Bell is a Jamaican record producer and label-owner who launched the Star Trail label in around 1989 along with Garnet Dalley.[1] He began by producing artists such as Beres Hammond and Hugh Griffith, but had his greatest successes in 1992 with Garnett Silk's "Hello Africa", Yami Bolo's "Non-stop Loving", and other successful singles by Leroy Smart and General Degree.[1] Bell has also worked with leading dancehall artists including Capleton, Sizzla, and Anthony B, with whom he had a long and successful relationship between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s,[2] and long-established singers such as Gregory Isaacs, Mykal Rose, and Everton Blender.[1]

Bell is one of the best-known adherents of the Bobo Ashanti branch of Rastafari in Jamaican music,[3] and his Star Trail records was one of the leading labels in the resurgence of Rastafari in reggae of the mid-1990s.[4]

Productions

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6, p. 307
  2. ↑ "Fire pon UWI, Anthony B speaks in Reggae Studies lecture series", Jamaica Observer, 4 December 2002
  3. ↑ Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn., Rough Guides, ISBN 1-84353-329-4, p. 373
  4. ↑ Campbell, Howard (2007) "Anthony B looks for long 'Life of a Ras'", Jamaica Gleaner, 16 September 2007


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