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Kong makes a cameo appearance in the Jamaican film The Harder They Come, playing a recording engineer in a scene in which Jimmy Cliff's character watches a studio recording session, by Toots and the Maytals, of the song "Sweet and Dandy" (Kong was the actual producer of that recording).
Leslie Kong was a Chinese-Jamaican entrepreneur who started Beverley's Records and recorded many ska, rock steady and reggae artistes, including Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and Desmond Dekker. He was the first Jamaican producer to get international hits and died in 1971.
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In 1968, with Leslie Kong as the producer, the Maytals released their first recording in the emerging style of reggae, “54-46 (That’s My Number).” A pumping, frantic account of Hibbert’s term in prison on a marijuana charge, it is considered one of reggae’s greatest songs.
Leslie Kong (1933 – August 9, 1971) was a Chinese Jamaican, reggae record producer. Career. Leslie Kong and his brothers (Fats and Cecil) used to run a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop named Beverley's in Orange Street, Kingston.
Leslie Kong was a Jamaican music producer who worked with many ska and reggae artists, such as Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and The Wailers. Listen to his songs and albums on Trojan Records, a label that showcases the best of Jamaican music.
Leslie Kong. One of reggae's earliest and most successful producers, Leslie Kong was instrumental in bringing the music to an international audience. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1933, he later joined with his three…. Read Full Biography.
