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THE MANY VICTORIES OF PRINCE BUSTER!

May 31st, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Roy Black— Prince Buster— Legendary Jamaican ska singer, songwriter, record producer, and sound system operator of the 1960’s, Prince Buster, celebrated a birthday last week. The milestone revives memories of some of the most intriguing and dramatic episodes concerning Buster in early Jamaican music. A man with extraordinary pugilistic tendencies, Buster was a Muslim, a boxer, and a self-acclaimed defender of the underdog. His pugilistic abilities were put to the test as a strong-armed gateman at Clement Dodd’s (Coxson) dances during the late 1950’s. Buster, whose correct name is Cecil Campbell, revealed to me in an interview some years ago that he viewed Coxson then, as an underdog in the sound system business when compared to others like, King Edward ‘The Giant’ and Duke Reid ‘The Trojan’, and being a defender of the … Read entire article »

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SKA LEGENDS FEATURED IN AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY!

February 21st, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston— Brad Klein—- Brad Klein was born in northern USA, but the music he has embraced almost all his life is ska. For more than 30 years, he has enjoyed a love affair with the Jamaican genre, so much so that, one day, after an interview with Derrick Morgan, he decided to make a documentary about it. “In 2000, I was the host of a ska radio programme at KUOM, a radio station in Minneapolis. At the time, the beautiful film Buena Vista Social Club was very popular and Ken Burns’ Jazz series was about to be released,” he told The Gleaner in an email response. He said, after interviewing Morgan, he looked up at the other disc jockey in the studio and loudly asked, “When is someone going to make a film on the music we … Read entire article »

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“BLUE BEAT” BROUGHT JAMAICAN MUSIC TO THE SHORES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM!

June 29th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Prince Buster— To the highly incognisant music lover, the term ‘Blue Beat’ is limited to being just a synonym for ‘ska’ – a type of popular music that is fast, with a strong off-beat that entered Jamaican music around the time of Independence. It was much more than that: The term ‘Blue Beat’ became very popular, especially in the United Kingdom (UK), following a mass migration of Jamaican recording artists to those shores in the early 1960s, triggered by the prospects of greater financial rewards. It resulted in a massive proliferation of Jamaican music in the United Kingdom. Included in the first Jamaican musical brain drain of the 1960s, were Wilfred ‘Jackie’ Edwards, Laurel Aitken, Owen Gray, trombonist Rico Rodriguez, Kentrist Fagan (better known as Girl Satchmo), and the lollipop girl, Millie Small. EARLY PIONEERS The move was indeed the first … Read entire article »

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BARON McKENLEY PAYS TRIBUTE TO SKA LEGEND PRINCE BUSTER!

May 30th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Baron McKenleyPrince Buster Spank 1 recording artist Baron McKenley aka Breezy McKenely is popularly known as the tribute man. To date he has recorded over 16 tribute songs in a career that spans over 3 decades. He has also recorded and released 11 albums. “I have done tributes to Fats Domino, Princess Diana, Bob Marley, Lennox Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, the people of Haiti and Barack Obama to name a few. A lot of people know me around … Read entire article »

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