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Clancy Eccles

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Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940 in Dean Pen, St. Mary, Jamaica – 30 June 2005 in Spanish Town, Jamaica)Katz was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. [1]

65 relations: Alexander Bustamante, Alton Ellis, Barrington Levy, Beres Hammond, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bobby Ellis, Boogie, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Carlos Malcolm, Coxsone Dodd, Culture (band), Cynthia Richards, Deejay (Jamaican), Delroy Wilson, Dennis Brown, Derrick Harriott, Dub music, Gladstone Anderson, Gleaner Company, Heartbeat Records, Inner Circle (band), Island Records, Jamaica, Jamaica Labour Party, Jamaican Gold, Joe Higgs, Johnny Moore (trumpeter), King Stitt, King Tubby, Kingston, Jamaica, Larry Marshall (singer), Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leslie Kong, Max Romeo, Michael Manley, Niney the Observer, Ocho Rios, Pama Records, Paul Douglas (musician), People's National Party, Prime Minister of Jamaica, Rastafari, Record label, Reggae, Rhythm and blues, Rocksteady, Rough Guides, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, Scout (sport), ..., Ska, Skinhead, Sonia Pottinger, Sound system (Jamaican), Spanish Town, Spiritual (music), The Blues Busters, The Clarendonians, The Independent, The Jamaica Observer, Trinidad, Trojan Records, West Indies Federation, Winston Grennan, Winston Wright. Expand index (15 more) »

Alexander Bustamante

Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (24 February 1884 – 6 August 1977) was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in 1962 became the first prime minister of Jamaica.

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Alton Ellis

Alton Nehemiah Ellis OD (1 September 1938 – 10 October 2008)"", Press Association, 11 October 2008 was a Jamaican singer-songwriter.

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Barrington Levy

Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.

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Beres Hammond

Beres Hammond OJ (born Hugh Beresford Hammond, 28 August 1955, Annotto Bay, Saint Mary, Jamaica)Moskowitz, David V. (2006) Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall, Greenwood Press,, p. 128-9Huey, Steve "", Allmusic, retrieved 2 February 2010 is a Jamaican reggae singer known in particular for his lovers rock music.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Bobby Ellis

Bobby Ellis OD (2 July 1932 – 18 October 2016) was a Jamaican trumpet player.

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Boogie

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm,Burrows, Terry (1995).

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Byron Lee and the Dragonaires

Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (known as Byron Lee's Dragonaires after Lee's death and now The Dragonaires) are a Jamaican ska, calypso and soca band.

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Carlos Malcolm

Carlos Malcolm OD (born c. 1934) is a Jamaican trombonist, percussionist and bandleader who was most popular in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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Coxsone Dodd

Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd CD (26 January 1932 – 5 May 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond.

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Culture (band)

Culture are a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976.

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Cynthia Richards

Cynthia Richards (born Sinthia Richards, 1944) is a Jamaican singer whose career began in the 1960s.

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Deejay (Jamaican)

In Jamaican music, a deejay (DJ) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.

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Delroy Wilson

Delroy George Wilson CD (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995)Greene, Jo-Ann, "", allmusic.com, Macrovision Corporation was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer, regarded as Jamaica's first child star.

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Dennis Brown

Dennis Emmanuel Brown(1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer.

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Derrick Harriott

Derrick Clifton Harriott (born 6 February 1939) is a Jamaican singer and record producer.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Gladstone Anderson

Gladstone Anderson (18 June 1934 – 3 December 2015), also known by his nickname "Gladdy", was a Jamaican pianist, keyboard player, and singer, who played a major part in the island's musical history, playing a key role in defining the ska sound and the rocksteady beat, and playing on hundreds of recordings as a session musician, a solo artist, and as leader of Gladdy's All Stars, featuring bassist Jackie Jackson, drummer Winston Grennan, guitarist Hux Brown, and keyboardist Winston Wright.

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Gleaner Company

The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica.

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Heartbeat Records

Heartbeat Records is an independent record label based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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Inner Circle (band)

Inner Circle, also known as The Inner Circle Band or The Bad Boys of Reggae, are a Jamaican reggae band formed in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1968.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jamaica Labour Party

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party (PNP).

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Jamaican Gold

Jamaican Gold is an independent record label from Netherlands specialized in Jamaican music reissues.

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Joe Higgs

Joseph Benjamin "Joe" Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica.

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Johnny Moore (trumpeter)

John Arlington "Dizzy" Moore OD was a Jamaican trumpet player and founding member of pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae act The Skatalites.

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King Stitt

Winston Sparkes (17 September 1940 – 31 January 2012), better known as King Stitt, was a Jamaican pioneer DJ.

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King Tubby

Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who greatly influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Larry Marshall (singer)

Larry Marshall (born Fitzroy Marshall), (17 December 1941 – 24 August 2017) was a Jamaican reggae singer, who recorded both as a solo artist and as part of the duos Larry & Alvin and Larry & Enid.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Leslie Kong

Leslie Kong (1933 – 9 August 1971) was an influential Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer.

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Max Romeo

Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1944), Jamaica Observer, 23 November 2014.

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Michael Manley

Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992.

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Niney the Observer

Winston Holness, better known as Niney the Observer (born George Boswell, 1951, Montego BayThompson, Dave (2002), Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,.), is a Jamaican record producer and singer who was a key figure in the creation of many classic reggae recordings dating from the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Ocho Rios

Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

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Pama Records

Pama records was a United Kingdom record label active during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Paul Douglas (musician)

Earl “Paul” Douglas (born c. 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning drummer and percussionist, best known for his work as the drummer, percussionist and bandleader of Toots and the Maytals.

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People's National Party

The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica founded in 1938 by Activist Osmond Theodore Fairclough.

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Prime Minister of Jamaica

The Prime Minister of Jamaica is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica

Saint Mary is a parish located in the northeast section of Jamaica.

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Scout (sport)

In professional sports, scouts are experienced talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skinhead

The skinhead subculture originated among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the 1980s.

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Sonia Pottinger

Sonia Eloise Pottinger OD (21 June 1931 – 3 November 2010)Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,, p.316" ", Jamaica Observer, 5 November 2010, retrieved 6 November 2010Campbell, Howard (2010) "", Jamaica Gleaner, 7 November 2010, retrieved 7 November 2010Walters, Basil (2010) " ", Jamaica Observer, 7 November 2010, retrieved 7 November 2010Katz, David "", The Guardian, 18 November 2010 12.43 EST, retrieved 22 December 2013 was a Jamaican reggae record producer.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Spanish Town

Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica.

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Spiritual (music)

Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African Americans.

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The Blues Busters

The Blues Busters was a vocal duo from Jamaica formed in 1960 and consisted of Philip James (9 March 1941-1989) and Lloyd Campbell (31 December 1941-1992).

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The Clarendonians

The Clarendonians are a ska and rocksteady vocal group from Jamaica, active initially from the mid- to late 1960s.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer Limited is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Trojan Records

Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.

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West Indies Federation

The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.

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Winston Grennan

Winston Grennan (16 September 1944 – 27 October 2000) was a Jamaican drummer, famous for session work from 1962 to 1973 in Jamaica as well as later in New York City through the 1970s and 1980s.

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Winston Wright

Winston Wright was a Jamaican keyboardist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Eccles

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