Gary Byrd

b. 1954, Buffalo, NY, USA. Byrd became at 15 the condition’s youngest radio disk jockey. His exuberant character dictated that he opportunity into that which was later named nascent rapping – or, as he called it, ‘disk journalism’. Getting into Stevie Question’s social group, he published lyrics to two items on 1976’s Tunes In THE MAIN ELEMENT Of Existence, and it had been through Question than Byrd arrived a decade later on to record ‘The Crown’, an extended solitary that, with multi-tracked accompaniment by his sponsor (because the GB Encounter), related dark racial background from historic Egypt to Malcolm X. Issued via Tamla Motown on Question’s Wonderdisc label, it climbed graphs in both UK and European countries. Without further chart achievement, Byrd was noticed commercially mainly on US airwaves being a chat-show web host and inquisitor (over the nationally syndicated Superstar Quiz). A born-again Christian, he also provided Sweet Motivation, a BBC series offering gospel music, in 1985.