Anzed of FOREVER REGGAE TV quick chat with Pat Chin of VP RECORDS If reggae music were blood, you could almost call Pat Chin the heart, distributing syncopated rhythms throughout the body with every beat, since the very beginning. “A Chinese woman living in America and doing reggae music. It’s different,” explains Miss Pat in slightly Jamaican-tinged English. VP Records (named after Vincent and Pat Chin) is the largest publisher and distributor of Caribbean music in the world. The face of reggae music clearly isn’t Asian—over 90 percent of Jamaicans are of African descent. But from the mid-19th to early 20th century, a significant number of East Indians and Chinese migrated to the island as laborers, many later becoming shopkeepers. Miss Pat is a fourth-generation Jamaican of mixed Chinese and Indian ancestry. On being a minority in Jamaica, Miss Pat reflects, “We never had a barrier. We didn’t think we were different.” The national motto, “Out of many, one people,” rang true. video by : Maxine Nolan www.purefamemedia.com