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Tad's Record

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Independent Kingston label, production house and publisher, with an international office in Miami, founded by the producer and engineer Tad Dawkins. By the label's own account it has been working since the early 1970s, and it has kept going as a family firm, with Tad Dawkins Jr co-producing alongside his father. Its catalogue runs from veteran singers to contemporary reggae, and two albums it put out have reached the Best Reggae Album shortlist at the Grammys: Gregory Isaacs' Brand New Me in 2010 and Etana's Reggae Forever in 2019.

It is the label behind both of Hezron's albums, and it releases the annual Celebrating Jamaica compilations timed to Independence.

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tadsrecord.com (about page, read directly); Jamaica Observer, "Tad's International eyes third Grammy nomination with 'Just Giving Thanks'", 13 October 2025; Shore Fire Media album announcement.

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Hezron - M.O.A.M (Man On A Mission) Official Video

YOUTUBE · rights discovery only · released

Official upload on the label's own channel, Tads Record (@tadsrecord8478); embedded as reference.

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Hezron - Tik Tok I'm Coming (LIVE PERFORMANCE)

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Live performance of the M.O.A.M. single, on the label's own Tads Record channel; embedded as reference.

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Shore Fire Media - Rising Reggae Artist Hezron Clarke To Release New Album "M.O.A.M. (Man on a Mission)" Out August 19th Via Tad's Record

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Label publicity, and therefore an interested party; used only for the release date, the label and the session personnel, which it states plainly.

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Jamaica Observer - Tad's International eyes third Grammy nomination with "Just Giving Thanks"

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Jamaica Observer, 13 October 2025; the source for the label's two previous Best Reggae Album nominations.

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In stories

Story · Well supportedThe Long Way Back: Hezron, Miami R&B and the Return to Reggae

A singer from a St James village spent a decade chasing an American record deal, then went home and found the music he was actually built for.

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