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- Bob Marley. 6 0. Famous As: Singer-Songwriter. Birthdate: February 6, 1945. Sun Sign: Aquarius. Died: May 11, 1981. Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who sold 20 million records in his career.
- Sean Kingston. 0 0. Famous As: Singer-songwriter. Birthdate: February 3, 1990. Sun Sign: Aquarius. Jamaican-American singer and rapper Kisean Paul Anderson, better known as “Sean Kingston,” is best known for his chart-topping tracks Beautiful Girls and Eenie Meenie.
- Vybz Kartel. 0 0. Famous As: Songwriter. Birthdate: January 7, 1976. Sun Sign: Capricorn. Jamaican reggae/dancehall musician Vybz Kartel, also known as Worl' Boss, soared to fame with hits such as Romping Shop and Summer Time.
- Peter Tosh. 0 0. Famous As: Reggae Musician. Birthdate: October 19, 1944. Sun Sign: Libra. Died: September 11, 1987. Abandoned by his parents as a child, Peter Tosh grew up learning music by watching others perform.
One of Jamaican music’s most prolific songwriters in the period 1966 -1986 was Keith Anderson, better known as Bob Andy. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on October 28, 1944, where he endured an itinerant childhood with virtually no schooling.
- Duke Reid
- Coxsone Dodd
- Dandy Livingstone
- Lee “Scratch” Perry
- King Tubby
- King Jammy
- Harry Mudie
- Leslie Kong
- Keith Hudson
- Rupie Edwards
The quintessential sound man turned producer, Duke Reid started his working career as a policeman in Kingston before moving into music and working his way towards becoming one of the world’s best reggae producers: clearly, he was tough enough to handle whatever the reggae business threw at him. After leaving the cops, Reid and his wife ran a liquor...
Clement Seymour “Coxsone” Dodd was among the first Jamaican producers to realize that, in order to control your product, you had to control the means of production. So Coxsone opened his own studio, pressed his own records, ran record shops, found his own talent, and produced and sometimes mixed his own tunes before playing them on his own sound sy...
Dandy Livingstone is best known as a singer who had a couple of UK hits with “Suzanne Beware Of The Devil” and “Big City” in the early 70s, then seemed to vanish as the decade wore on – an inauspicious trajectory for someone who would become hailed as one of the best reggae producers of the era. He was a one-man record industry in the 60s and 70s, ...
Lee “Scratch” Perrywas at the cutting edge of reggae from the late 60s to the late 70s, and since then he has been on the cutting edge of music itself as a roaming performance artist that some people seem to believe is simply a slightly crazy old man ranting, as opposed to one of the best reggae producers in the history not just of reggae, but of m...
King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock) made his name as a remix engineer, not as a producer. He was, however, effectively a producer in the 70s, voicing and remixing rhythm tapes and actually creating the sound of a record for other producers in his little self-built mixing facility in Kingston’s Waterhouse ghetto. He was also a major sound system operator,...
Lloyd “Jammy” James began his musical career as a sound system operator, and after a period working in America, returned to become an apprentice to King Tubby at Tubby’s studio in the mid-70s, where Jammy acquired the title Prince and was an effective and exciting dub remixer. He launched his Jammy’s label in the late 70s, working with Yabby U and ...
Let’s not imagine that Harry Mudie is a prolific producer, though he is still in the business decades after his debut. Unlike some of the other names on this list, the market was never groaning with his material; he released his records sparingly, preferring to work on getting them right than cutting tune after tune. But Mudie belongs among the bes...
While other producers kicked up more rumpus, showed more personality, made records that were more outlandish and generally tried to outshine their charges, Leslie Kong was different. He simply set about proving that Jamaica could compete in the world’s pop charts and had enough talent to create real stars – yet he still made nothing but pure reggae...
With a background that remains mysterious – one of his jobs was “ghetto dentist” – Keith Hudson started making records as a youth. He was the first producer to record U Roy, he made funky tunes, and he sang himself, despite hardly being what you might describe as an orthodox vocalist. His record labels had names that few people could understand, su...
With a series of his own record labels, a strong singing voice, the ability to play piano and percussion, and even acting as the publisher of a Jamaican music magazine, Record Retailer, in the early 70s, Rupie Edwards was at the heart of Jamaican reggae from the late 60s to the mid-70s, so it was fitting that his retail outlet was on Orange Street,...
Sep 29, 2016 · The many writers, both novelists and poets, who have emerged from Jamaica over the years chart the history of the island, from the iconoclastic anti-colonial scribes, the post-colonial avant-garde to the contemporary generation of writers who depict modern Jamaica. © Northeastern University Press.
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Also known as “Tuff Gong,” Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob Marley has become a legend as a reggae singer and song writer. He celebrated the genres of ska, reggae and rock steady in his songs.
Feb 16, 2014 · Keith Anderson (Bob Andy) has, over the years, been widely accepted as one of Jamaica's best songwriters. He wrote Ken Boothe's early piece, I Don't Want to See You Cry, a song which put the singer on the road to success. Andy also wrote Marcia Griffiths' early recordings, jumpstarting her career.
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Dec 14, 2020 · Jamaica is one of the epicenters of music. With talnted artists emerging from the scene, we want to note the Jamaican music producers coming up.
