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Barry O'Hare

JM
Producer of Reggae

Jamaican musician, engineer and producer. Barry O'Hare began his musical journey at an early age. Son of a minister of religion, he attended Vaz Prep School in Kingston where he started piano lessons. By age nine, he was playing piano in his father's Pentecostal Church, and the organ by 11. For as long as he can remember, Barry has wanted to to be involved in music and audio engineering. He even went to work as an engineer at Club Caribbean hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann for free, just to gain an insight into the music business. Then it was his cousin Stephen Stewart who would call with the job of a lifetime, about a new studio being opened in Ocho Rios, Grove Recording Studio. He met the owner Karl Young (5) and was offered the job as an assistant, and within two months he was doing all the recording, that was in 1987. He successfully assisted Courtney Cole (of Roof International) as both an engineer and a session musician, and in the early 90s he set up his own label X-Rated Record Int. (later renamed World A Muzik).