Born 1950 in Kingston/Jamaica, Phil Pratt is one of the most crucial reggae producers. He started to work at Studio One during the rocksteady era, and then moved on to , where, as a sublabel, he launched . Pratt was the one to push forward the young , and during the 1970s he worked with other key artists of that era - singers like and as well as deejays like and . In the early 1980s Phil Pratt moved to London, and when the digital dancehall era set in, he quit music business and opened a restaurant. Many of Phil Pratt’s productions have been reissued through and the French .