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Richard "Bello" Bell is a Jamaican record producer and label-owner who launched the Star Trail label in around 1989 along with Garnet Dalley.[1] He began by producing artists such as Beres Hammond and Hugh Griffith, but had his greatest successes in 1992 with Garnett Silk's "Hello Africa", Yami Bolo's "Non-stop Loving", and other successful singles by Leroy Smart and General Degree.[1] Bell has also worked with leading dancehall artists including Capleton, Sizzla, and Anthony B, with whom he had a long and successful relationship between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s,[2] and long-established singers such as Gregory Isaacs, Mykal Rose, and Everton Blender.[1]
Bell is one of the best-known adherents of the Bobo Ashanti branch of Rastafari in Jamaican music,[3] and his Star Trail records was one of the leading labels in the resurgence of Rastafari in reggae of the mid-1990s.[4]
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- Beres Hammond - Love Affair (1992)
- Fleshy Ranks - Bustin Out (1994)
- Beres Hammond - In Control (1994)
- Everton Blender - Lift Up Your Head (1994)
- Gregory Isaacs - My Poor Heart (1994)
- Nardo Ranks - Cool and Humble (1995)
- Beres Hammond - Expression (1995)
- Capleton - Prophecy (1995)
- Beres Hammond - Love From a Distance (1996)
- Everton Blender - Piece of the Blender (1996)
- Beres Hammond - Getting Stronger (1997)
- Tony Rebel - If Jah (1998)
- Anthony B - Universal Struggle (1998)
- Derrick Lara - All About Life (1999)
- Determine - Freedom Chant (1999)
- Third World - Generation Coming (1999)
- Norris Man - Persistence (2000)
- Anthony B - That's Life (2001)
- Beres Hammond - Love has no Boundaries (2004)
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