Philip 'Fattis' Burrell, 57, died at Kingston's University of the West Indies Hospital on Saturday Dec. 3. Burrell, CEO of the Kingston, Jamaica based label Xterminator Records, suffered a stroke two weeks ago and was admitted to the hospital; his condition deteriorated last Tuesday when his doctors discovered a blood clot near his lungs; Burrell fell into a coma on Friday night from which he died from.
Born in the Trench Town area of western Kingston, Burrell was raised in England but returned to Jamaica as a teenager. His production career commenced with singer Sugar Minott's 1984 single "More Dogs To The Bone", which Burrell released on his own Kings & Lions label. Two years later Burrell created the Vena imprint, releasing early works by upcoming singers including Sanchez, Pinchers and Thriller U, and established acts such as Frankie Paul, Gregory Isaacs and sing-jay Charlie Chaplin at the time. Burrell founded Exterminator (later Xterminator) in 1989 and released some of the biggest singles in Jamaica throughout the 1990s by Beres Hammond, Ninjaman, Ini Kamoze and Cocoa Tea among others.
