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Derrick Harriott

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Jamaican singer, producer and retailer who rose with the Jiving Juniors in the late 1950s, founded the Crystal label, and turned his One Stop record shop into a Kingston institution — one of the clearest examples of the artist-producer-shopkeeper triple role in Jamaican music.

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Era: Rocksteady, reggae and dub →
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Harriott makes it 'One Stop' for over 40 years

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Jamaica Gleaner archive feature on Derrick Harriott's shop.

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