Columbia Records’ love-hate relationship with reggae
Columbia Records’ love-hate relationship with reggae
When the various annals of reggae are written it will not be complete unless major labels are accorded their rightful place for how they accommodated some of reggae’s finest artistes and their love-hate relationship with the genre.
Of course, the human element must be taken into consideration and for that reason the name David Kahne must be mentioned. A musician/arranger who became a producer and later a senior executive at Columbia Records, Kahne was the man who signed a slew of reggae acts in the 1980s.