Philip Ernest Pottinger (born 29 April 1967), known professionally as Phillip Leo, is a British reggae singer, songwriter and producer.

1 hit single "Two Timing Lover" by Janet Lee Davis,[2] "Crazy Feeling" by Peter Spence, "Lets Show the World" by Nerious Joseph,[1] and producing the lovers duo Zuruchi's first single "Celebrate Our Love", winning Reggae Songwriter of the Year two consecutive years in row in 1989 and 1990.

Leo also did sessions on drum programming, keyboards and backing vocals on a string of recordings by artists like Barry Boom, Nerious Joseph, and Cutty Ranks, and also producing two songs for the Sandra Cross album Foundation Of Love.

He then produced the hit singles "Why do Fools Fall in Love", "Good Thing Going",[3] and "Young, Gifted & Black", which were duets with DJ CJ Lewis.

The first single entitled "Hypnotic Love",[4] which included four entirely different mixes of the song featuring DJ CJ Lewis,[5] and spent seven weeks at no.

Lewis's second album, Rough & Smooth, again produced by Leo, went platinum in Japan, and had a no.1 single taken from it called "R to the A" in France and sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide.

This led to being asked to appear alongside other British and Jamaican reggae acts on Japansplash, a yearly event which takes place in different towns across Japan over the course of six weeks.

In 1997, a limited release of Phillip Leo's fifth album Down 2 Earth was circulated, from which the top ten reggae single "Summer Girl" featuring Glamma Kid was taken.