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Jamaican pianist, singer and ace session musician Gladstone “Gladdy” Anderson has already established a in back of the scenes effect on the island’s music for pretty much fifty years. Created June 18, 1934, in Jones City for the outskirts of Kingston, Anderson was trained the piano by his uncle, bandleader …

Stranger Cole was created Wilburn Theodore Cole in 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica, receiving the nickname “Stranger” because he resembled nobody else in his family members. Cole started his recording profession with maker Duke Reid, rating a hit along with his 1962 debut, “Tough & Hard,” a full-tilt ska quantity with …