1931-2010 JM, Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica
Producer
A.k.a. Sonia Eloise Pottinger nee Durrant
Sonia Eloise Pottinger OD (21 June 1931 – 3 November 2010) was a Jamaican reggae record producer.The most important Jamaican woman involved in music business, Sonia Pottinger was the first female Jamaican record producer and produced artists from the mid-1960s until the mid-1980s.In the 1970s, she produced albums by Bob Andy, Marcia Griffiths, Culture, U Roy and Big Youth.Her most well known production is Culture's Harder Than The Rest album, released in 1978.In the dancehall era show produced Archie & Lynn's "Rat in the Centre". She retired from the music business in 1985.