Creole Records
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Creole Records was a UK
United Kingdom
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 record label
Record label
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 that found most of its success in the disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 genres in the mid 1970s to early 1980s.

Creole released the debut singles
Single (music)
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 of both Boney M. ("Baby Do You Wanna Bump") and Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
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 ("Trouble") in 1975. Other artists included Sugar Minott
Sugar Minott
Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.-Biography:...

, Ruby Winters
Ruby Winters
Ruby Winters is an American female soul singer, whose records made the singles charts in both the US and UK in the 1960s and 1970s.-Life and career:...

, Peter Green
Peter Green (musician)
Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac...

, Liquid Gold
Liquid Gold
Liquid Gold was an English disco group, from Brackley in Northamptonshire. Their biggest success came in 1980 with Dance Yourself Dizzy, which peaked at number two on the UK chart.-Career:...

 ("Dance Yourself Dizzy"), Maxine Singleton, Ken Gold, Danish reggae band Laid Back
Laid Back
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 ("Sunshine Reggae") Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker
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, Sylvester
Sylvester
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, Frankie Vaughan
Frankie Vaughan
Frankie Vaughan, CBE, DL was an English singer of traditional pop music, who issued more than 80 recordings in his lifetime. He was known as "Mr. Moonlight" after one of his early hits.-Life and career:...

, City 19 and Enigma who had a hit in 1981 with "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".
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