Louise Frazer-Bennett

Artiste manager, booking agent and mentor, and for more than two decades one of the very few women working the business side of dancehall rather than the stage. She had a hand in the careers of Wayne "Sleng Teng" Smith, Tenor Saw, Captain Barkey and Wickerman, Charlie Chaplin, Junior Reid, Ninjaman and Bounty Killer, and the tribute paid to her by people who watched her work is that she would haggle with producers and promoters until her artistes got the best of the deal, in a trade that had almost no women on that side of the table.

She was also a founding member of the Sound System Association of Jamaica, the early 1990s attempt to bring the soundmen under one umbrella, and she did the association's least glamorous and most useful work: bargaining with ASCAP over terms for sound system operators, and driving Festival songs out to members so they would play them.

One of six children from Jones Town in St Andrew, and sister of the Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Richard Austin, she died on 12 October 2003 at the University Hospital of the West Indies, four days after being admitted with severe headaches. She was 50.