by Eric Doumerc | 9, Mar 2023
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...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Mar 2023
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...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
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...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
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...
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...
