Teddy Greaves

Teddy Greaves is really a legendary Western Indies entertainer given birth to and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He’s been performing all his existence, 1st in his indigenous land than just about everywhere from Nassau to Florida. As a married guy with children, Teddy migrated towards the Bahamas along with his family members; the move kicked his profession up a notch. He made an appearance within the Johnny Carson display, radio displays, diplomatic parties, kept lounge gigs at Stateside night clubs just like the Junkanoo Lounge in Washington, D.C, and stints within the M. V. Lucaya CRUISE LINER. Known for his mellow lovely shade, and standup bass abilities, Greaves spent some time working with little quintets, in addition to, big rings. His recording profession includes some singles and some albums, some within the Artwork label (Feet. Lauderdale, FL), including Here’s Teddy Greaves & his Groovy Group, and Living It Up with Teddy Greaves. Because of timing and advertising, he never really had an International strike, and his information rarely aired in the us. A magnetic entertainer, he under no circumstances got within the supper golf club circuit in the us, either by choice, or insufficient demand, and constantly seem content being truly a Western world Indies icon. In the event that you captured his live shows you observed a consummate entertainer adept at balladeering in British, Spanish, Italian, or French, or uptempo Ska, German folk, African Swahili, Mexican, and South American music. When you’re able to keep down cushy residencies just like the Turtle Walk Supper Membership on the Grand Bahama Resort, there’s little motivation to pass on your talents somewhere else. Greaves came back house when his children were teenagers therefore they could finish off their schooling in Jamaica. There he arrived the resident music group job at a fresh luxury resort in Montego Bay. Ironically, Teddy’s boy Yishka may attain the worldwide popularity that eluded him. Yishka, and his brothers used their father’s music group in the Montego Bay gig, it had been right here that Yishka 1st displayed his performing prowess, before he previously been content material to play the trumpet. Yishka offers documented with reggae rings and it has released a single LP entitled Yishka. Just about any essential musician in Jamaica offers distributed a stage with Greaves, including Cedric Inn Brooks, Marjorie Whylie, Leslie Butler, the Skatalites, Sonny Bradshaw, and many more.