KINGSTON, Jamaica — American film and television producer Eric Newman and producer Ben Silverman, Co-CEO and Chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate, have partnered with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell on a new TV series, which will feature iconic Jamaican music and its local and global impact.

According to Deadline TV, the untitled drama will take a multiple-perspective look at the political discord that followed in the wake of Jamaican independence from Britain in 1962 and the birth of the local music industry.

Sascha Penn, who wrote the series, will be its executive producer. She will work closely with Marlon James — the Jamaican-born author of the award-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings — who will also executive produce, Deadline TV said.

The British-born Blackwell is the legendary music producer credited with introducing The Wailers — Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer — to the international market.

He established Island Records in 1959 and was amongst the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as Ska.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, has designated him ‘the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music”.