Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus

b. Michael George Henry, c.1943, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Henry was raised inside a Rastafarian community at St. Mary where he discovered hand-drumming, eventually learning to be a master-drummer. In the first 60s, he created the Sons Of Negus, a Rastafarian band of drummers and performers. In the middle-60s he founded his personal Zion Disk label, and began to launch a group of singles including ‘Lion Of Judah’, ‘Ethiopian Country wide Anthem’ and ‘Salvation’. These recordings, which the group is normally augmented by acoustic guitar and bass, display a remarkable amount of invention and subtlety. Around 1966, he documented at Studio room One like a percussionist, using Jackie Mittoo AS WELL AS THE Soul Vendors in trade for studio room period. In the first 70s he documented Dadawah Serenity And Love, which his group was augmented by studio room musicians, a mixture of Rastafarian chant, reggae, southern spirit and psychedelia significantly improved by its imaginative plans. Nyahbinghi was a assortment of chants and hymns in the design of his Zion disk singles. In 1975, he documented Rastafari, which his group was augmented by many well-known reggae music artists. The recording’s tight plans and excellent tunes brought him in to the reggae mainstream, however the momentum was dropped with 1976’s Tribute TOWARDS THE Emperor with Jazzboe Abubaka and Independence Seems. He augmented his group once again for 1978’s Kabir Am Lak (Glory To God) and Motions, both which are solid albums. In 1979, Rastafari In Dub was released, an excellent assortment of materials culled from Rastafari and Kibir Am Lak. Further produces included Promised Property Seems Live (1980), Disarmament and Revelation (1982). His last exceptional album was Like Thy Neighbour, whose imaginative creation is the function of Lee Perry. Through the past due 80s Michael spent significant amounts of period teaching drumming. He came back to documenting with Zion Teach (1988), a mediocre recording made with no Sons Of Negus, accompanied by UNDERSTAND HOW (1990), a unsatisfactory set which attempted to incorporate globe music elements.