Singer Minott to appear at Club Octopus
Jamaican singer Lincoln
“Sugar” Minott.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Roots Reggae lovers and connoisseurs of classic reggae
music are in for a treat on Friday 16 September when the Club Octopus in
association with Big People Music presents veteran Jamaican singer Lincoln
“Sugar” Minott.
At 49 years old the “granulated one” shows no signs of
slowing down and his career, which began in 1969 with Tony Tuff and Derrick
Howard as “The African Brothers, is still going strong.
When African Brothers broke up in 1974 Minott went solo
joining Studio One, and got his first major solo hit “Vanity” in 1978. His
debut album “Live Loving” is often credited as the first dancehall album.
Minott never left his roots and over the next few years
he had many chart topping hits such as “Run Come”, “Not for Sale” “African
Girl”, “ In a Dis Yah Time”, “Good Thing Going”, “Make it with You”, and
Herbman Hustling”. Minott is one of a handful of Reggae Artistes who could
move from Roots Reggae to Lovers Rock to Dancehall with consummate ease.
“Sugar” Minott is one of the great figures of reggae
music and is fully justified to carry the status as the “Godfather of
Dancehall”.
In 1974 Sugar then teamed up with the legendary producer
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd and the singer was responsible for reviving the
fortunes of Studio One in the 70s. Sugar wrote new songs and sung them over
classic Brentford Road rhythm tracks and single-handedly invented the modern
day dancehall style. His Studio One hits included such classics as “Vanity”,
“Hang On Natty”, “Mr. DC”, “Jah Jah Children” and many more.
Sugar left Studio One in 1979 and formed his own Black
Roots label. As well as producing his own material, Sugar produced a number of
established artistes alongside up and coming talented youths like Barry Brown,
Tony Tuff, Little John, Captain Sinbad and Tristan Palmer. Later on with the
advent of Youth Promotion he discovered and produced such artistes like Tenor
Saw, Nitty Gritty, Junior Reid, Yami Bolo and Garnett Silk, who recorded his
first song there.
Throughout the 1980s the hits just kept on coming and it
seemed like Sugar could do no wrong. Able to be a master of every different
style from rough roots to sweet lovers, through to classic dancehall, he was
an artiste of enormous influence.
In the 1990s and into the new millennium Sugar has
continued to record and tour across the globe. He has released over 60 albums
and literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of 45’s. He remains the true,
original dancehall reggae star and continues to be an inspiration to many
young artistees.
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