by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Dennis Bovell was born in 1953 in Barbados, but grew up in England where reggae and Rastafarianism had taken root in the 1970s. Bovell has had a long and successful career as a member of the Black British reggae band Matumbi, as a solo artist working under various...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
The Cimarons were one of the first homegrown reggae bands to emerge in Britain in the 1970s and first made their name by backing the Jamaican artists who toured the British Isles back then. The band was formed in 1969 at the Tavistock Youth and Community Centre in...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Glen Brown, the “Rhythm Master” (1944-2019) Glen Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1944 and entered the music business in the mid-1960s when he formed a duo with the singer Lloyd Robinson. They recorded several tracks for Duke Reid, like...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Steel Pulse is an important band in the history of reggae because, along with Aswad and Matumbi, they proved that good reggae music could come from England too, and that Jamaicans did not have a monopoly on reggae. Up until the mid-1970s there seems to have been the...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Fred Locks (b. Stafford Elliott) was born in 1955 in Jamaica and entered the music business in the late 1960s when he recorded a number of singles for the Studio One label as a member of a group called The Lyrics (“Girls Like Dirt”, “Hear what the...
