Duke Reid
Duke Reid was a
Jamaican record producer,
DJ and
label owner. He ran one of the most popular sound systems of the
1950s and founded Trojan Records, which released many extremely popular
calypso music,
jump blues and American
R&B singles in the late
1950s. In the
1960s, Reid founded a series of other labels that signed many of the most important
ska and
reggae artists. He was still extremely active in the
1970s, working with legendary
dub artist
U-Roy. He died in
1974 after having suffered from a severe illness for the last year.