Ranking Dread

b. Winston Dark brown, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Rank Dread set up his reputation being a live DJ for Lloyd Coxsone’s London-based audio system up to now another within the long type of eccentric, idiosyncratic mike men connected with reggae music. His particular design of delivery was structured around a slurring, nearly whining, vocal, continuously interrupted by responses and interjections, and provided definite evidence that it had been not everything you stated, but the way you stated it that mattered. His early recordings had been inauspicious and didn’t make any influence, but PLENTY OF Loving was being among the most performed information in UK reggae in 1979/1980, where in fact the mix of Dread’s delivery plus some of Sly And Robbie’s and Glucose Minott’s greatest rhythms guaranteed his popularity. Several big-selling 12-inches singles followed, several which hovered in the low reaches from the country wide charts. He’s now thought to be surviving in Canada but no more records or functions live.