No not Desmond dekker but Chris Blackwell founded island records. And not the island records but the Desmond dekker was largely responsible for bringing ska and reggae to international attention.
With their 1968 single "Do the Reggay," Toots and the Maytals introduced the term "reggae" in song. Chris Blackwell was the one who decided on the group's line-up before introducing them to an international audience.
Where Ska: a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and served as a forerunner to rocksteady and reggae (both of which originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s). The term also refers to contemporary popular music from Jamaica and its diaspora).
