Joseph "Jo Jo" Hoo Kim

Joseph "Jo Jo" Hoo Kim (1942 - 20 September 2018) was the Jamaican producer whose business sense built Channel One into what United Reggae called "arguably the most successful reggae brand". He and his brothers Paul, Kenneth and Ernest opened the studio on Maxfield Avenue in 1972, coming from the seafaring community of Greenwich Farm nearby, where the family had run an ice cream parlour, slot machines and a sound system first.

The label opened with Delroy Wilson's "It's A Shame". A state-of-the-art API console defined the studio's sound, with Ernest as chief engineer and the Revolutionaries — built around Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare — as house band; the run included the Mighty Diamonds' "I Need A Roof", "Africa" and "Country Living", Leroy Smart's "Ballistic Affair", Ernest Wilson's "I Know Myself", the Meditations' "Woman Is Like A Shadow", the Jays' "Queen Majesty", the Revolutionaries' "MPLA" and Horace Andy's "Girl I Love You".

The hits continued after Paul was murdered in Greenwich Farm in 1977, but the brothers gradually lost interest and returned to slot machines and other businesses in the late 1980s, overseeing Channel One reissues in Europe, Japan and the United States. He died in New York of liver cancer, survived by his wife Joyce, his brother Ernest, three sisters, children and grandchildren.