By MISANI Special to the Amsterdam News
Let’s take a trip down to Jamaica to see how a man and his family built a music empire. Vincent “Randy” Chin, the son of a craftsman who had arrived from China in the 1920s, was born on October 3, 1937, in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. Upon completion of school around the age of 17, destiny placed Vincent in the employment of a man named Isaac Issa, who controlled the country’s large jukebox kingdom.
Young Vincent’s work was to maintain and restock Issa’s jukeboxes throughout the island, a job which would prepare him for a great future in the Caribbean music industry.The time was the mid-1950s. This was the era of the early sound systems in Jamaica. It was a period when enterprising young men, known as “sound-men,” would set up their sound systems at different places in the community, attracting people who would gather to listen to the latest R&B sounds imported from America, socialize and dance the night away.
These mobile discos were an important component in the development of contemporary Jamaican music and served to demonstrate how technology was modified to accommodate the time and the needs of the people. In effect,....Story continued here
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