Susan Cadogan

Susan Cadogan (born Allison Anne Cadogan; 2 November 1951) is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for her hit records in the mid 1970s.

Biography

Cadogan is the daughter of Rev. Claude Cadogan and Lola Cadogan, a trained soprano singer of classical and devotional music during the 1950s up until 2000. Cadogan spent several years of her childhood in Belize, where her father was from, before returning to Jamaica to live. She worked as an assistant librarian, taking a job in the library of the University of the West Indies at Mona. Her talents as a singer led to her recording her first single, "Love My Life" for Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation (JBC radio) DJ Jerry Lewis, who was the boyfriend of one of Cadogan's school friends. Lee "Scratch" Perry was in the recording studio at the time, and was impressed by Cadogan's voice enough to record an album's worth of material with her, also renaming her Susan.

One of her first recordings for Perry, a cover of Millie Jackson's soul hit, "Hurt So Good" (featuring bassist Boris Gardiner and the Zap Pow horns), was released to little effect in Jamaica on Perry's new Perries record label, but was released in the UK by Dennis Harris' DIP International...

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