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Midnite

The brainchild of brothers Ron and Vaughn Benjamin, Midnite formed in the Virgin Islands island of St. Croix in 1989. The quintet people possess included Dion Hopkins (drums), Joe Straws (bass), Trippa (acoustic guitar), Ron (keyboards), and Vaughn (lead vocals). They’re well-known in St. Croix, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, as …

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Nick Hexum

Best known while a member from the rap/reggae/pop group 311, vocalist and guitarist Nick Hexum can be a laid-back jazz- and soul-influenced single artist who also performs along with his sibling, guitarist Zack Hexum, in the Nick Hexum Quintet. Given birth to in Wisconsin in 1970, Hexum was raised in …

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Maxi Priest

Christened the “King of Lovers Rock” by his fans, British reggae star Maxi Priest was one of the most internationally popular reggae singers since Bob Marley. Priest’s pop and contemporary R&B affects didn’t precisely endear him to reggae purists, however they offered him a solid crossover charm that paid in …

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Johnny Clarke

Among Jamaica’s most outstanding vocal skills, Johnny Clarke hasn’t achieved the international acclaim of a few of his compatriots, and he even fell from favour in his homeland in the 1980s. Nevertheless, in his heyday, through the middle- through past due ’70s, the vocalist recorded a blast of essential cuts, …

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Johnny King

A policeman who annually produces a 12-inches solo or EP with meaningful lyrics backed by an uptempo dance melody. Some years, such as for example 1985, it had been the significant melody that captured on, although he provides hit extremely big in various other years with critical Street March contenders. …

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Delroy Wilson

Delroy Wilson was among Jamaica’s most soulful vocalists, and more than a 40-season career the vocalist unleashed a overflow of strikes and a variety of masterpieces. Given birth to on Oct 5, 1948, in the Kingston community of Trenchtown, Wilson’s extraordinary talent will be his solution from the ghetto, and …

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John Brown’s Body

Named honoring the legendary abolitionist, reggae unit John Brown’s Body was led by singer/guitarist Kevin Kinsella, a longtime buff of Caribbean music who shaped the group Tribulations while going to college in Boston in 1989. 3 years later on they took best honors in the annual Yamaha Soundcheck competition, touring …

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Ernie Smith

b. Glenroy Ernest Smith, c.1948, Jamaica, West Indies. Smith in the beginning loved notoriety when his solitary ‘Pitta Patta’, supported with ‘Lichfield Landscapes’, topped the Jamaican graphs in 1973, making use of Lee Perry’s ‘musical transplant’ tempo. The music was voted as the very best song of the entire year …

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Greyhound

Initially formed simply by Danny Smith and Freddie Notes mainly because the Rudies in the past due ’60s, U.K.-centered Greyhound released tracks less than a number of names, like the Rudies, the Tilermen and Des All Famous actors, before buying the Greyhound name. As the Rudies, the group experienced strikes …

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Eric Donaldson

Reggae musician Eric Donaldson was created in Kent Community, Jamaica, on June 11, 1947, and launched his music profession in 1964 when he recorded some monitors for Studio One particular in Kingston, that have remained unreleased. Quickly thereafter, Donaldson produced the vocal clothing the Western world Indians along with Leslie …

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