Gregory Isaacs ~ Similar Artists
Dennis Brown
- 100% match to Gregory Isaacs
Dennis Emanuel Brown, 1 February 1957, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 1 July 1999, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Regularly billed as "the Crown Prince of Reggae", it was only Brown's self-effacing nature that denied him advancement to the office of king. Loved in reggae...
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The Heptones
- 82% match to Gregory Isaacs
Leroy Sibbles (1949, Jamaica, West Indies), Barry Llewellyn (b. 25 December 1947, Jamaica, West Indies) and Earl Morgan (b. 25 November 1945, Jamaica, West Indies) were without doubt the foremost rocksteady and reggae vocal trio, and their work together, especially for Studio...
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Black Uhuru
- 73% match to Gregory Isaacs
Formed in Jamaica by Rudolph "Garth" Dennis, Derrick "Duckie" Simpson (24 June 1950) and Euvin "Don Carlos" Spencer in 1974, Black Uhuru first recorded a version of Curtis Mayfield's "Romancing To The Folk Song" for Dynamic's Top Cat label as Uhuru (the Swahili word for...
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Burning Spear
- 62% match to Gregory Isaacs
30 April 1964, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. Barrington Levy was one of the first singers to challenge the dominance of DJs in 80s dancehall reggae, although his earliest recording, under the name of the Mighty Multitude ("My Black Girl" in 1977), predated that era. Another...
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One of the most famous Jamaican vocal groups of the 70s and 80s, the Mighty Diamonds was formed in 1969 by lead vocalist Donald "Tabby" Shaw with Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson providing the harmonies and occasional lead. They recorded unsuccessfully for...
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Eek-A-Mouse
- 53% match to Gregory Isaacs
Ripton Joseph Hylton, 19 November 1957, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. It is not only Eek-A-Mouse's 6 feet 6 inches height that make him one of Jamaica's most individual talents. Hylton's unusual name was originally that of a racehorse upon which he frequently lost money; when...
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Sly & Robbie
- 53% match to Gregory Isaacs
Sly Dunbar (Lowell Charles Dunbar, 10 May 1952, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies; drums) and Robbie Shakespeare (b. 27 September 1953, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies; bass) have probably played on more reggae records than the rest of Jamaica's many session musicians put together....
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Buju Banton
- 50% match to Gregory Isaacs
Mark Anthony Myrie, 15 July 1973, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Banton was raised in Denham Town and began to learn the craft of the DJ at the age of 13 with the Rambo Mango and Sweet Love sound systems. The name Buju, meaning breadfruit, was given to him by his mother when he...
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