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Joseph Benjamin Higgs (3 June 1940 - 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s, he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. He was a popular artist in Jamaica for four decades and is also known for his work tutoring younger musicians including Bob Marley and the Wailers and Jimmy Cliff.
Higgs was instrumental in the foundation of modern Jamaican music, first recording in 1958 for producer and businessman (and later Jamaican Prime Minister) Edward Seaga, both as a solo artist and with Roy Wilson. He is often called the "Godfather of Reggae". His first release (with Wilson) was "Oh Manny Oh" in 1958, which was one of the first records to be pressed in Jamaica and went on to sell 50,000 copies.
Higgs mentored young singers in his yard and began working with Bob Marley in 1959. In fact, it was at one of the informal music lessons Joe Higgs held in Trench Town, that Bob and Bunny Livingston met Peter Tosh. It was Higgs who introduced the Wailers to Dodd in 1963. Higgs has also been described as the "Father of Reggae" by Jimmy Cliff. For a while Higgs toured with Cliff, acting as his bandleader and also performed with The Wailers on their US tour when Bunny Wailer refused to go on the tour in 1973. In 1995, his final album was issued, Joe and Marcia Together, a collaboration with his daughter.
Higgs died of cancer on 18 December 1999 at Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles. He was survived by twelve children, including his daughter Marcia, who is a rapper, and son Peter, a studio guitarist.
Jamaican singer Tyrone Taylor, who died aged 53 of complications stemming from prostate cancer, was a versatile vocalist who recorded in a range of styles throughout his career. Although the tall and charismatic singer will forever be associated with Cottage in Negril, a sentimental, semi-autobiographical ballad that caused an international sensation in the early 1980s, his powerfully expressive voice, and hard-hitting lyrics made him one of Jamaica's most popular protest singers during the late 1970s, and he was also favoured for individual renditions of foreign cover tunes.
Taylor was born in rural St Elizabeth, an underdeveloped portion of southwest Jamaica, and began recording in Kingston in his early teens, by which time his deep voice was already defined by a characteristic rasping.
Cottage in Negril, a self-produced effort that Taylor wrote and recorded in 1981, referred to a problematic romantic liaison the singer experienced with an overseas visitor in the once sleepy town on Jamaica's west coast, which had become a haven for backpackers from north America and Europe. Cottage in Negril gradually found favour with overseas audiences, being picked up by major label MCA two years later, making Taylor the best-selling reggae singer of 1983 and leading to a memorable performance at the following year's Reggae Sunsplash.
After struggling with substance misuse for a long time, Taylor suffered two strokes and was confined to a wheelchair earlier this year. He is survived by nine children. Tyrone Taylor, singer, songwriter, and record producer, was born in 1954; died on December 1, 2007.
As a musician, Mallory Williams - who is the son of famous pianist Luther Williams, and also cousin to the singer, actress, and model Grace Jones - has played keyboard for a wide cross-section of reggae artists, including Jimmy Cliff, and was part of the team which recorded Cliff’s gold album, The Power and Glory. He also toured with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers and played on several albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Fallen is Babylon. As a keyboard player with the all-star backing band Lloyd Parkes and We the People, he accompanied other artists such as Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Ken Boothe, and John Holt.
Williams, who is best known for the hit song She Boom, has shown his entrepreneurship streak by capitalizing on the success with merchandise with a difference. “I have created the Boom oil because that was a huge song, and it was also my first number one hit. The year was 1986. It was covered in French by the group Kulcha Konnection and rose to No. 1 on the French music charts,” he said.
According to his bio, She Boom not only reached number one on the charts but also became the first music video that portrayed dancehall dancers and blazed a trail for other videos showcasing the dancehall movement.
Born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica, Ansel Collins began his career as a drummer, moving to keyboards in the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, he performed with the Invincibles band (whose members also included Lloyd Parks, Sly Dunbar, and Ranchie McLean. Collins was part of the duo Dave and Ansel Collins along with Dave Barker, with whom he had a number one hit in the United Kingdom in 1971 with "Double Barrel".
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