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Studio One is one of Jamaica's most renowned record labels and recording studios; it has been described as the Motown of Jamaica. The record label was involved with most of the major music movements in Jamaica during the 1960s and 1970s, including ska , rocksteady , reggae , dub and dancehall .
Donat Roy Mittoo (3 March 1948 – 16 December 1990), better known as Jackie Mittoo, [1] was a Jamaican-Canadian keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. [2] He was a member of The Skatalites and musical director of the Studio One record label.
He had a number one UK reggae chart album in 1980 with Barnabas Collins. [2] He is regarded as one of the most lyrically inventive deejays of his era, and was a major influence on British deejays of the early 1980s. [2] He relocated to the United States in the mid-1980s, but returned to Jamaica in 1998, and began performing on sound systems ...
Studio One (Emirati TV program), a 2011–2014 television program broadcast in the MENA region on Dubai One; Studio One (record label), a Jamaican recording studio and record label in 1954–1980s; Studio One (recording studio), an American facility in 1970–1989; Studio 1, a 2006 album by British girl group All Saints; Studio 1, a project and ...
The success of the string-laden reggae led to Trojan Records issuing a series of similarly arranged albums produced by Ashfield starting with the 1,000 Volts of Holt in 1973, a compilation of Holt's reggae cover versions of popular hits (and later followed by similarly named releases up to the Lee-produced 3,000 Volts of Holt).
Bob Andy was one of the founding members of The Paragons, along with Tyrone Evans and Howard Barrett, with John Holt later joining briefly before being replaced by Vic Taylor. [3] Andy left after Holt rejoined and worked for Studio One delivering records and songwriting before embarking on a solo career.
He was born Michael James Williams in Spanish Town, Jamaica. [1] Williams' first job in the music industry was as a deejay on the Sir Mike the Musical Dragon sound system, [3] also working as a security guard at Joe Gibbs' studio, and later as a bouncer at Studio One, but after recording "The Great Booga Wooga" for Bunny Lee in 1969 (under the name King Cry Cry, a reference to his habit of ...
Studio One, Coxsone, Tabernacle Musical artist Clement Seymour " Coxsone " Dodd CD (26 January 1932 – 4 May 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond.