IN the mid-1970s, Donovan Germain donned a jacket and tie and headed to his nine-to-five job on Wall Street where he worked as a junior accountant at a brokerage firm.
It was not long before he got bored. "I never love the corporate world... the jacket and tie thing wasn't for me," he told the Sunday Observer.
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| Penthouse boss Donovan Germain with veteran singer Marcia Griffiths. |
He entered the music business as a producer with Germain's Revolutionary Records, but did not hit his stride until 1988 when he returned to Jamaica and launched Penthouse Records. This year, Germain went into his archives and selected 47 songs which will be released on January 14, 2014 by VP Records as Penthouse Records 25 Years — The Journey Continues.
The set contains many of the songs that made the label a powerhouse during the 1990s, a fruitful period for dancehall music. There are others not as well known. Read more:
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