Ken Khouri

Kenneth Lloyd Khouri (1917 – 20 September 2003) was a pioneering Jamaican record producer and founder of Federal Records, the first recording studio in Jamaica, which was sold to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong record label in 1981. He is credited by reggae historians for the birth of rocksteady in the 1960s. Rocksteady later mixed with Jamaican mento, a genre in which Khouri also had a pioneering role, leading to the creation of reggae music.

American singer Johnny Nash to recorded his first international hit "Hold Me Tight", which went on to sell six million copies globally and has been credited with first putting reggae in the American listener charts, at the Federal Studio, with his son Paul one of the producers. . He and Nash's produced "Tears on my Pillow", which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in July 1975 for one week.