She left Michigan at twenty with twenty dollars in her pocket. She knew she wanted to be in the music industry at age three. By the time she was in her thirties, she was running the Bob Marley estate's record label. None of that was the plan — and that's exactly the point.

In Episode 5 of Tuned Out, Dave Audé and Deborah welcome Cristy Barber — Grammy-nominated producer, A&R veteran, label president, reggae industry legend, and now president of the Tuff Gong Collective under Universal. Cristy has worked at Capitol, Columbia, Island, Elektra, VP Records (where she was, yes, the VP of VP), and the Marley family's Ghetto Youths International label. She's broken records in countries most labels don't even think about, shot music videos for two grand before anyone else had to, and — on more than one occasion — quit her job on the spot for he ...