Geoffrey Chung

Geoffrey Aloysius Chung (1950 – 13 October 1995) was a Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer.

Chung was born in 1950 in Kingston, Jamaica.^[2] He worked as a session keyboard player and guitarist in the 1960s, as a member of The Mighty Mystics and the Now Generation Band, both of which also included his brother, guitarist Mikey Chung, and Lee "Scratch" Perry's band The Upsetters, among others.^[3][4] He began working as a producer in the 1970s, initially with Sharon Forrester on her debut album, and set up his Edge productions company in 1974.^[3] His productions included work by The Abyssinians, The Heptones, and Marcia Griffiths.^[3] He also worked with Ras Michael's Sons of Negus band, on the 1975 album Rastafari Dub, playing synthesizer, organ and piano,^[5] and worked regularly with singer Pablo Moses, both as keyboard player and producer, including his first and best-known recording "I Man a Grasshopper".^[2][6] Chung also produced the recordings that would be released as the first two albums from Ijahman Levi.^[7] In the early 1980s, he became resident engineer at the Dynamic studios, where he mixed several albums by Peter Tosh, and he co-produced early recordings by Frankie Paul.^[3] In the late 1980s, he relocated to Miami, where he established his own recording studio.^[3] In 1991, he produced and engineered Maxi Priest's Best of Me album. Chung died in 1995 of liver failure.^[8][9] His work continued to be released since his death, such as the 2003 release of Everton Blender's King Man album, where he played clavinet and acted as engineer.^[2][9]

• Geoffrey Chung at Roots Archives
• Geoffrey Chung at AllMusic.com