Chris Blackwell

摘要

I grew up in Jamaica, and when the country became independent in 1962,I went to England to sell the records I had made back home [to the Jamaican community]. I learned to sign artists not so much by listening to their music as through evaluating them as people. Intelligence is very important if you're going to have a long-term career. When you do have a hit, you go from a bum to a hero in a second, and you've got to be savvy enough to guide yourself through the maze.