History

During the early and mid 1960’s, Danny Sims and Johnny Nash, the famous Jamaican singer-songwriter (and first reggae chart artist) were business partners in a number of New York based, commercial music companies. These companies were set up to acquire and exploit Afro-Caribbean music. By 1967, the corporate base had expanded to encompass Jamaica, where the companies recording studios were based and where, subsequently, a number of eminent Jamaican artists were signed.

This company, having already secured an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide songwriter’s agreement with Johnny Nash (at the time the most eminent of all Afro-Caribbean songwriter’s in the world) under a basic working arrangement, then signed and recorded a large number of major Jamaican artists, including Nash himself, Bob Marley, Lloyd Price, Gene Chandler, Jimmy Norman, Betty Wright, Peter Tosh, Hugh Masakela, Rita Marley, Byron Lee, Delroy Morgan, The Tokens & many others.

The partners signed all (or almost all) of their artists to exclusive recording agreements with JAD Records Inc. and to exclusive long-term publishing agreements with Cayman Music.

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