# Valentine Chin

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{{short description|Jamaican guitarist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Tony Chin
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| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = Albert Valentine Chin
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| origin              = [Kingston](/source/Kingston%2C_Jamaica), [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)
| instrument          = Guitar
| genre               = [Reggae](/source/Reggae)
| occupation          = 
| years_active        = 1960s–present
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'''Albert Valentine "Tony" Chin''' is a [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)n [guitarist](/source/guitarist), who has collaborated with many [reggae](/source/reggae) [artists](/source/musician) including [Bob Marley](/source/Bob_Marley), [Dennis Brown](/source/Dennis_Brown), [Gregory Isaacs](/source/Gregory_Isaacs), [Freddie McGregor](/source/Freddie_McGregor), [Bunny Wailer](/source/Bunny_Wailer), [Big Youth](/source/Big_Youth), [U-Roy](/source/U-Roy), [Max Romeo](/source/Max_Romeo), [Don Carlos](/source/Don_Carlos), [Mikey Dread](/source/Mikey_Dread), [Burning Spear](/source/Burning_Spear), [Johnny Clarke](/source/Johnny_Clarke) and many others.

He started as a drummer but he switched to guitar when he teamed up with bassist George "Fully" Fullwood to form the Riddim Raiders in the late 60s playing [rocksteady](/source/rocksteady). It was the same band which later evolved to the [Soul Syndicate](/source/Soul_Syndicate), a backing band on countless reggae tracks,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDKfGRCq73cC&q=%22Valentine+Chin%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA58|title=Caribbean Popular Music: An Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall|last=Moskowitz|first=David Vlado|date=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313331589|language=en}}</ref> They [recorded](/source/sound_recording_and_reproduction) for [Keith Hudson](/source/Keith_Hudson), [Niney the Observer](/source/Niney_the_Observer), and [Bunny Lee](/source/Bunny_Lee), and other Jamaican [record producer](/source/record_producer)s.<ref name="Larkin">Larkin, Colin (1998) "Chin, Tony", in ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Virgin Books, {{ISBN|0-7535-0242-9}}, p. 56</ref>

Quite a distinct sound to his [guitar](/source/guitar) playing, Chin played a crucial part in the "flyers" sound of the mid-1970s, popularised by Bunny Lee.<ref name=":0" />

In the 1981 Chin moved to [California](/source/California), joining forces with Jack Miller and his International Reggae All Star and playing played in the band that supported [Peter Tosh](/source/Peter_Tosh)'s son Andrew [Tosh](/source/Andrew_Tosh). In the 1990s.<ref name=":0" /> Chin lived in [Florida](/source/Florida), where he joined the successful US reggae band [Big Mountain](/source/Big_Mountain_(band)). He currently lives in Los Angeles and plays with [Soul Syndicate](/source/Soul_Syndicate) bassist George "Fully" Fullwood.<ref name="Larkin" />

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