U Brown
One of the most significant of the younger generation of Jamaican deejays, U-Brown, was born Huford Brown in Kingston in 1956. One of 11 children, Brown's musical education began by accompanying his father to local bars, as well as spending quite a bit of time hanging out on Bond Street near Treasure Isle studios. While only 15 Brown began his deejaying career in earnest working for the Philip Monroe-owned Sound of Music, developing his skills while recording tracks like "Wet Up Your Pants Foot" and "Jah Jah Whip Them." In 1975 he began working with Bunny Lee and cut his first album Satta Dread which was released only in Jamaica and Britain. Brown continued to work with Lee until the end of the decade recording three more obscure albums and a handful of equally obscure singles.
Brown's principal influence is the great U-Roy and his deejaying retains U-Roy's surreal jive, only its a bit faster and more percussive. Plus, the dub tracks U-Brown toasts over (many of them mixed by King Tubby and Prince Jammy) are deeper and darker than U-Roy's giving the proceedings a more intense vibe. In the latter part of the 70s U-Brown started his own label (Hit Sound) and achieved a modicum of success as a producer and by the 80s he had relocated to Miami where he worked with producer Kenneth Black.
U-Brown returned to Jamaica in 1990 and continues to produce, record and deejay albeit with less frequency than in the past. He lives a life of semi-seclusion able to pick an choose projects he wants to be involved with. Although he doesn't have to, he continues to work as a sound system deejay. Those are his roots and he, like his hero U-Roy, intends to carry on that great tradition.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Repatriation (1979)
Dub - Released by Patate Records on 1 Jan 1979
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I Want More Than the Boom Boom Boom
World - Released by Boomrush Productions on 16 Dec 2022
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Tu Shung Peng
Reggae - Released by Street Rockaz Family on 27 May 2022
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Mount Zion
Dancehall - Released by Patate Records on 17 Mar 2023
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You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (2002 Digital Remaster)
Reggae - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1979
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Hit Sounds From Channel One 1979-80
Reggae - Released by Mideya on 1 Jan 1999
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Rougher Than The Rest
Dub - Released by Jah Warrior Records on 29 Jul 2003
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No Stoppin' This Music
Reggae - Released by Roots Records on 18 Feb 2013
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza
Reggae - Released by Authentic Jamaican Music on 13 Jan 2014
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So Long Rastafari
Dub - Released by Axx Record Production on 11 May 2019
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza (Extended Version)
Reggae - Released by Gorgon Music - VPAL Music on 13 Jan 2014
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U. Brown's Me Have To Get You
World - Released by Charly Records on 24 Jun 2006
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Original Ganjaman
U Brown, Linval Thompson, Irie Ites
Reggae - Released by Evidence Music on 5 Apr 2024
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza (Extended)
Reggae - Released by Alexander Music Group on 13 Jan 2014
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Behold Riddim EP
Anthony Johnson, U Brown, Paco Ten, billyman
World - Released by Roots Cooperation on 10 Apr 2021
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Sound Business
Reggae - Released by iMusician | South Rockers Records on 18 Feb 2024
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