The music industry is the type of business that can strain, or even destroy, the best of relationships. So when three individuals can come together and collectively run a label, it catches most of us by surprise. Nicholas Deane, Ricardo Martin, and Gavin Blar have been friends for over a decade and business partners for their Kingston-born label Equiknoxx since about 2005. It’s rare that any company with multiple executives can work together to delegate tasks in a balanced and efficient way. What makes the 5-member Equiknoxx Label run smoothly is that, from the beginning, each member has had an assigned role. Refining that role over the years, the 3 members have learned to respect the important function of one another within the label.