Danny Sims former producer of Bob Marley dies at age 75

by DRW
(Jamaica)

Danny Sims

Few people outside of the Caribbean knew who Bob Marley was when Danny Sims heard him perform in 1968. But Mr. Sims knew Marley was something special right away.

“What I heard,” he recalled years later, “was the next Bob Dylan.”

Mr. Sims, a music producer, publisher and promoter, promptly signed Marley to his first international publishing and recording contracts, setting him on the road to becoming the first reggae superstar.