The Wailing Souls

The reggae group known as The Wailing Souls has been around under various names and with a fluctuating personnel since the mid-1960s, but the two founding members, Winston “Pipe” Matthews, and Lloyd “Bread” McDonald, have been part of the group...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert (1942-2020) The Maytals were one of the best vocal trios to emerge just before Independence, in 1961, when Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, Henry Raleigh Gordon, and Nathaniel Jerry Mathias decided to join hands and form a...

Bunny Wailer

Neville O’Riley Livingston was born on 10 April 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was the son of Thaddeus Livingston, a carpenter and craftsman who lived in Trench Town and also had a rum bar, next door to Bob Marley’s family. Bunny soon became Bob’s...

Little John

Little John Little John is a dancehall singer from the 1980s who can be credited with blurring the boundaries between singing and singjaying, and thus with creating a new style which became known as “singjaying”. He was born John McMorris in 1970 in...

Brigadier Jerry

Robert Russell, aka Brigadier Jerry, was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1957 and became intesrested in music at an early age, when he began to follow U-Roy’s King Sturgav Hi Fi. In the 1970s he became a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, a Rastafarian...