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Earl Lindo

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 …

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Impact All-Stars

Between 1968 and 1977, Randy’s Studio room 17 was the website for a few of all-time greatest reggae recordings including seminal albums from the Wailers and Burning up Spear. Possessed by Vincent “Randy” Chin, the studio room sparkled using the visionary executive of Errol “E.T.” Thompson and his successors, George …

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Aston Barrett

The role from the bass guitar in reggae was established by bassist, producer, arranger, and engineer Aston “Family Guy” Barrett. Along with his sibling, Carlton “Carlie” Barrett, on drums, Barrett offered the fundamental rhythmic basis for the recordings and shows by Bob Marley from 1969 until Marley’s loss of life …

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Ansel Collins

Though keyboardist Ansel Collins hardly ever made an enormous name for himself being a single artist, he played on countless recordings for a few of reggae’s most well-known artists through the ’70s and ’80s. Blessed in Jamaica in 1949, Collins started his musical profession within the ’60s being a vocalist …

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Tommy McCook

The leader from the renowned Skatalites, tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook was being among the most innovative and influential Jamaican musicians of his generation, a prime catalyst behind the evolution and international popularity of ska and reggae. Blessed in 1932, McCook discovered to try out sax while participating in Kingston’s Alpha …

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Carlton “Carly” Barrett

When Carlton “Carly” Barrett was discovered murdered on Great Fri, April 17, 1987, reggae dropped among its most influential drummers. Regarding his old sibling, Aston “Familyman” Barrett, on bass, Barrett equipped the rock stable rhythm portion of Bob Marley AS WELL AS THE Wailers from 1969 until Marley’s loss of …

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Augustus Pablo

As any entrepreneur will let you know, the best way to achievement is with the discovery of a distinct segment or even a previously unexploited marketplace. Still, few people, and also fewer musicians, could have thought that there is market for the audio from the melodica. What following, they would …

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Sly Dunbar

The foundations of Jamaica’s drumming style were set with the innovative playing of Sly Dunbar (born: Lowell Fillmore Dunbar). As one-half from the Riddim Twins, Dunbar became a member of with bassist Robbie Shakespeare to supply the tempo section and/or creation for recordings by reggae performers including Peter Tosh, Dark …

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