Sonia Pottinger, who blazed a trail as reggae's most successful female music producer, died Wednesday evening at her St Andrew home. She was 79 years old.
David Plummer, the youngest of Pottinger's four children, told The Gleaner that his mother had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease in recent years. He did not say if it caused her death.
Born in St Thomas, Pottinger was introduced to the music business by her husband L.O. Pottinger, an engineer who had relative success as a producer in the mid-1960s. She went on her own during that period, scoring a massive hit with Every Night, a ballad by singer Joe White.
Pottinger had considerable success in the late 1960s with her Tip Top, High Note and Gay Feet labels. She produced Errol Dunkley's debut album,
