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Randy Muller of ’70s disco/funk band Brass Construction (“Movin'”) produced Georgetown, Guyana, indigenous Rafael Cameron’s biggest early-’80s hits, “Magic of You (Just like the Way)” and “Funtown U.S.A.” Primarily documenting as Cameron, his silky tenor became an ideal counterpoint to Muller’s brassy funk-driven creation style. Created Rafael Cameron in 1951, …

The lone Jackson relative to remain with Motown as the other brothers split for CBS/Epic (he was then wedded to Berry Gordy’s child Hazel), Jermaine enjoyed a artistically diffident career through the ’70s at Motown, surfacing with an intermittent hit just like a remake of “Daddy’s House” (1972) and “Let’s …

Though in no way an artistic innovator about par with contemporaries such as for example Bob Marley or Jimmy Cliff, singer Johnny Nash however proved a pivotal force behind the mainstream approval of reggae using the international success of his 1972 chart-topper “I COULD See Clearly Right now.” Given birth …

John Parr is really a Grammy-nominated British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who strike it big within the mid-’80s with a set of chart-topping singles. Parr’s self-titled 1984 debut spawned a humble strike with “Naughty Naughty,” a monitor that possessed a rock and roll edge but were able to end up …

Larry Elgart is apparently something of the unstoppable force in dance music group and big-band music, bordering on jazz mostly with the appropriation of varied swingy instrumentalists to fill up section rates. The Elgart name itself is normally legendary in this sort of music; sibling Les Elgart also fronts his …

Billy Sea was among the first Caribbean singers to become embraced simply by MTV, producing a string of TOP pop hits during his mid-’80s commercial peak. Blessed Leslie Charles in Trinidad on January 21, 1950, Sea moved to Britain at age eight, and by his teenage years was performing frequently …

The coronary attack death of Keith Gemstone (born: Keith Vincent Constantine Alexander), on January 18, 1997, took the life span of 1 of New York’s top producers and songwriters of metropolitan contemporary dance music. The composer and maker of Billy Ocean’s chart-topping 1983 strike, “Caribbean Queen”, Gemstone went on to …