Philip "Fatis" Burrell

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Philip "Fatis" Burrell (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is a prolific Jamaican record producer, who runs the Xterminator record label. He has been one of the most successful producers of the digital reggae era.[1]

[edit] Biography

Born in Trenchtown, Burrell spent part of his childhood in England before returning to Jamaica as a teenager.[2] His first production was Sugar Minott's "More Dogs To The Bone" in 1984, starting the Kings & Lions record label in the same year.[2][1] In 1987 he started the Vena label, releasing early works by new artists that he had discovered such as Sanchez, Pinchers and Thriller U, and established artists including Frankie Paul, Gregory Isaacs, and Charlie Chaplin.[2] By 1989, Burrell had founded the Exterminator (later Xterminator) label, which in the early 1990s released records by Ninjaman, Ini Kamoze, Cocoa Tea, Beres Hammond, and Johnny Osbourne.[2]

More recent successes have come with releases from Luciano and Sizzla. Burrell's house band includes drummer Sly Dunbar and The Firehouse Crew.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter:"Reggae: The Rough Guide", 1997, Rough Guides, ISBN 1-85828-247-0
  2. ^ a b c d Larkin, Colin: "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", 1998, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9

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