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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --><br />
| name = Tony Chin<br />
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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist<br />
| birth_name = Albert Valentine Chin<br />
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| origin = [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]<br />
| instrument = guitar<br />
| genre = [[Reggae]]<br />
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| years_active = 1960's to current<br />
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| associated_acts = [[Soul Syndicate]]<br />
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'''Albert Valentine "Tony" Chin''' is a [[Jamaica]]n [[guitarist]], who has collaborated with many [[reggae]] [[musician|artists]] including Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Freddie McGregor, Bunny Wailer, Big Youth, U-Roy, Max Romeo, Don Carlos, Mikey Dread, [[Burning Spear]], [[Johnny Clarke]] and many others.<br />
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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]]. It was the same band which later evolved to the [[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 [[sound recording and reproduction|recorded]] for [[Keith Hudson]], [[Niney the Observer]], and [[Bunny Lee]], and other Jamaican [[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> <br />
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Quite a distinct sound to his [[guitar]] playing, Chin played a crucial part in the "flyers" sound of the mid-1970s, popularized by Bunny Lee.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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In the 1981 Chin moved to [[California]], joining forces with Jack Miller and his International Reggae All Star and playing played in the band that supported [[Peter Tosh]]'s son Andrew [[Andrew Tosh|Tosh]]. In the 1990s.<ref name=":0" /> Chin lived in [[Florida]], where he joined the successful US reggae band [[Big Mountain (band)|Big Mountain]]. He currently lives in Los Angeles and plays with [[Soul Syndicate]] bassist George "Fully" Fullwood.<ref name="Larkin" /><br />
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Tony Chin later played with Big Mountain and his distinct guitar sound can be heard on their hit Baby I Love Your Way<br />
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