Super Cat

William Anthony Maragh (born 25 June 1963), also known as Super Cat, is a Jamaican deejay who achieved widespread popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s dancehall movement. His nickname, "Wild Apache", was given to him by his mentor Early B. Super Cat is considered one of the greatest deejays in the history of the Jamaican dancehall scene.

Biography

Born to an Afro-Jamaican mother and Indo-Jamaican father, Super Cat was raised in Kingston's tough Seivright Gardens neighbourhood, then known as Cockburn Pen, home to ground-breaking deejays like Prince Jazzbo and U-Roy. At the age of seven the Soul Imperial sound system allowed him to assist them at a local club called Bamboo Lawn. He auditioned for Joe Gibbs as a singer but was unsuccessful.

After leaving his family home in Kingston at the age of ten, Super Cat credits Ranking Trevor as the first man who passed him the mic. He lived in the Arnett Gardens area, and even briefly took shelter in the Calvary cemetery, before being caught up in a police raid and jailed at the infamous the General Penitentiary at the age of seventeen. After his release two years later, he soon began appearing as a deejay under the name "Cat...

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