By Howard Campbell– CHIN… nobody knew about reggae—- THIS is the 11th in a 12-part series looking at Jamaicans who have excelled in the tri-state (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) area’s entertainment and leisure industry. VINCENT and Patricia Chin had been involved in the music business for almost 20 years when they migrated to New York City in the late 1970s. But the husband-and-wife team soon discovered there was no mass market for Jamaican music in the Big Apple. “Nobody knew about reggae. When I went there 35 years ago the only person they knew about was Bob Marley,” Pat Chin told Splash recently. Unfazed, the Chins started VP Records in Queens in 1979. Today, the company is the world’s leading distributor of reggae and is usually credited with breaking modern dancehall music in the … Read entire article »