Alvin ‘GG’ Ranglin (born 1942, Eden, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, record producer and record label owner.
Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an Adventist Church background. As a radio and television technician involved in the jukebox industry, he soon acquired his own sound system he named “GG”. By the mid-1960s, he opened his own TV repair shop in May Pen and started to produce records with artists such as Trevor Brown; and as a singer with Vernon Buckley (later of The Maytones) as “Vern & Alvin” and with Lloyd Flowers under the name of “Flowers & Alvin”. He soon developed his business by buying jukeboxes and opening his first record shop.
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