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b. Earl Wilberforce Lindo, 7 January 1953, Kingston, Jamaica. Lindo started his musical tuition in the Excelsior SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL playing traditional piano and bass, and he started hearing the jazz noises of Lee Dorsey and Jimmy Smith. His preliminary foray in to the reggae market arrived when he performed …

Tenor saxophonist Cedric “Im” Brooks is among Jamaica’s most adventuresome music artists. Blessed in 1943 in Kingston, Brooks gets the heart of the bop jazzman defeating to some reggae tempo, and his tests with historic rasta nyahbinghi drum patterns offers led him to fuse components of calypso, rhumba, jazz, Afro-beat, …

Perhaps one of the most prolific program players of Jamaica’s pre-ska period, trombonist Rico Rodriguez afterwards emerged being a catalyst at the rear of the UK’s 2-Build movement from the later 1970s, saving both being a single artist so when a member from the legendary Special deals. While participating in …

Sonia Pottinger isn’t just mostly of the women suppliers in Jamaica, but, also probably one of the most successful. Three of her productions had been included on a summary of best 100 Jamaican strikes ever published by Clinton Lindsay of WNWK-FM in NY. Joe White’s 1968 saving of “EVERY EVENING” …

b. Albert Anderson, 1950, Shirt, NY, USA. Anderson learnt to try out the trombone ahead of his expulsion through the Mount Clairidge SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. He later on enrolled in the Berklee University Of Music where he got ensembles instead of registering for full-time education. He dedicated his free time …