Little Roy

Little Roy (born Earl Lowe, 1953, in Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist.

Biography

Little Roy began his career at the age of 12 years in 1965 recording a few unsuccessful tracks with producers Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster. He was the first to record a song with the word 'reggae' in the lyric, with producer Prince Buster who named him Little Roy. He had his first number one hit with "Bongo Nyah" (1969) at the age of 16 years for Lloyd Daley ("the Matador"), the first song about the Rastafari movement to be successful commercially in Jamaica. For his song "Don't Cross the Nation" (1970), Little Roy worked with the Wailers and producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. Roy worked with the late Dennis Brown on the bass and Leroy Sibbles on the song "Tribal War". Starting in 1972, Roy worked with Maurice "Scorcher" Jackson and his brother Munchie. Roy wrote and recorded the influential and well-received songs "Tribal War" and "Prophecy" in the 1970s. George Nooks and John Holt recorded their own roots Rockers discomix takes on Roy's "Tribal War" original composition, and the rhythm from "Prophecy" was later used by Steely & Clevie in 1990, leading to a hit record for...

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