| Genres: |
Pop / Rock,
Reggae
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| Descriptive "tags": |
oldies, 50s, showtune, counter-melody, under 2000 listeners
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| Decades Active: |
1950s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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| Links online: |
BBC Music,
Official Homepage,
Wikipedia
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Biography
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 was recognized very early by producers Coxsone Dodd and Byron Lee, who were competing for her father’s signature on a recording contract even before Griffiths’ tenth birthday. Dodd was the winner because she ‘liked his vibes’ and Dodd’s Studio One set-up was like a ‘musical college’. It was there that Griffiths achieved her first Jamaican number 1 in 1968 with the rocksteady hit ‘Feel Like Jumping’, a record that can still fill dance floors. She had worked very closely with Bob Andy during this period and he had written many of her biggest hits for her. In 1969, they recorded, as Bob And Marcia, an interpretation of Nina Simone’s ‘To Be...
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