Sonia Pottinger

Sonia Pottinger (1931-2010), known as "Miss P," was Jamaica's first female record producer, active from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Working from her Tip Top Records shop, she released rocksteady and reggae hits on her Gay Feet, High Note, Tip Top and Rainbow labels for the Ethiopians, the Melodians ("Swing and Dine"), Delano Stewart, Ken Boothe and others.

She acquired Duke Reid's Treasure Isle catalogue in 1974 and produced Culture's Harder Than the Rest (1978). Her first production was "Every Night" by Joe White and Chuck. She opened the Tip Top record shop in 1965 and began producing the following year, working through to the mid-1980s with Bob Andy, Marcia Griffiths, Alton Ellis, U-Roy, Big Youth, the Melodians, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe and Culture on her Gay Feet, Tip Top, Rainbow and High Note labels, and buying Duke Reid's Treasure Isle in 1974 shortly before his death.

She was known as "Miss P", and is not to be confused with Ranking Miss P, the British broadcaster and sister of Rita Marley, nor with Patricia "Miss Pat" Chin of VP Records. Three different women in Jamaican music answer to a similar name.