"This memoir will go down as required reading in years to come." - Flea Market Funk

    The life and work of legendary reggae figure Patricia 'Miss Pat' Chin, with test and quotes from Edward Seaga, Chris Blackwell, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Marcia Griffiths, Bunny “Striker” Lee and nuff others! Learn history - this is it!

    Included many never seen, artist and family photos and original illustrations.

    Spanning six decades of music history, from the rise and development of Randy's Record Mart, the famed music shop and recording studio in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, founded with her late husband Vincent 'Randy' Chin in 1958, to the family's migration to New York City, where in the late 1970s, VP Record Distributors was established.

    The book shares her story on the rise of the Jamaican music industry over six decades!

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