Tuff Gong Recording Studios

Tuff Gong Records – named for its founder, Bob ‘Tuff Gong’ Marley – is one of the Caribbean’s largest and most influential studios. Initially established on Orange St, the enterprise then took up residence at 56 Hope Rd at what is now the Bob Marley Museum before returning to downtown Kingston at its present site. Bob Marley’s early mixing board traveled with the studio and is still in use today as the studio continues to turn out hit records, not least of which are those by his son Ziggy, the studio’s current chief. It’s a commercial venture with a remastering plant and remixing studio, but visitors are welcome to a 45-minute tour provided you call first to make sure the studio are not in use. A gift store sells CDs and singles, plus T-shirts, tapes, crafts and a miscellany of Marley mementos.