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Dennis Brown - 85% match to The Heptones

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... Read more

Gregory Isaacs - 82% match to The Heptones

15 July 1950, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Reggae superstar Gregory Isaacs has seldom looked back during a career that has gone from strength to strength, and while many rock stars like to toy with an "outlaw" image, Isaacs is the real thing - the ultimate rude boy reggae... Read more

Dennis Alcapone - 72% match to The Heptones

Dennis Smith, 6 August 1947, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. Initially inspired by U-Roy, Alcapone began DJing for El Paso Hi-Fi in 1969. He was the first DJ to enjoy success on record after U-Roy, and likewise the first to challenge his dominance. His initial records were made... Read more

The Mighty Diamonds - 71% match to The Heptones

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... Read more

Marcia Griffiths - 70% match to The Heptones

Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Griffiths is arguably the most consistently successful female vocalist in the history of reggae music, having recorded in every one of the myriad of styles in Jamaican music, from ska through to an 80s rap crossover record. Her precocious talent... Read more

The Paragons - 66% match to The Heptones

This R&B vocal group was formed in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. With their high false falsetto and exotic warbling, the Paragons represented a rock 'n' roll doo-wop sound - sometimes called "greasy" - that was extremely popular on the east coast in the late 50s. The... Read more

Burning Spear - 63% match to The Heptones

Desmond Dekker - 52% match to The Heptones

Desmond Adolphus Dacres, 16 July 1941, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 25 May 2006, London, England. Dacres spent much of his orphaned childhood near Seaforth in St. Thomas before returning to Kingston, where he worked as a welder. His workmates encouraged him to seek a... Read more

Black Uhuru - 51% match to The Heptones

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... Read more

Junior Delgado - 50% match to The Heptones

Oscar Hibbert, 25 August 1958, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 11 April 2005, London, England. While still at school, Junior "Jux" Delgado won prizes for singing at concerts and local talent contests. In 1973, Lee Perry produced his first recordings, "Reaction" and "The... Read more