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This is a list of notable bands and musicians who performed primarily rocksteady music for a significant portion of their careers. Bobby Aitken; Roland Alphonso [1]
Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966. [1] A successor of ska and a precursor to reggae, rocksteady was the dominant style of music in Jamaica for nearly two years, performed by many of the artists who helped establish reggae, including harmony groups such as the Techniques, the Paragons, the Heptones and the Gaylads; soulful singers such as Alton Ellis, [2] Delroy ...
Pages in category "Rocksteady musicians" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Gladstone Anderson; D.
Rocksteady musicians (12 P) ... Let's Do Rock Steady; M. A Message to You Rudy This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 22:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Desmond Dekker (born Desmond Adolphus Dacres; 16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006) [1] was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites" (1968).
Moskowitz, David V. (2006) Caribbean Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33158-8; Walter, Basil (22 January 2010). "Lynn Taitt -- the musician's musician --dies in Canada". The Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010
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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 ...