Richard "Bello" Bell is a Jamaican record producer and label-owner who launched the Star Trail label in around 1989 along with Garnet Dalley.[1] He began by producing artists such as Beres Hammond and Hugh Griffith, but had his greatest successes in 1992 with Garnett Silk's "Hello Africa", Yami Bolo's "Non-stop Loving", and other successful singles by Leroy Smart and General Degree.[1] Bell has also worked with leading dancehall artists including Capleton, Sizzla, and Anthony B, with whom he had a long and successful relationship between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s,[2] and long-established singers such as Gregory Isaacs, Mykal Rose, and Everton Blender.[1]
Bell is one of the best-known adherents of the Bobo Ashanti branch of Rastafari in Jamaican music,[3] and his Star Trail records was one of the leading labels in the resurgence of Rastafari in reggae of the mid-1990s.[4]