West Indies Records Limited (WIRL)

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Recording company and pressing plant established in Kingston in 1958 by future Prime Minister Edward Seaga, recruiting talent-show artists such as Higgs and Wilson and Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, and holding the Jamaican franchise for Columbia. After a fire damaged the pressing plant, Seaga sold the operation to Byron Lee in 1964, who rebuilt it as Dynamic Sounds. WIRL is remembered as one of the earliest professional record businesses in Jamaica. Source note: Wikipedia and Jamaica Gleaner 'Vintage Voices'.