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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Repatriation (1979)
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Tu Shung Peng
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Mount Zion
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Reggae - Lançado por iMD-perry em 26/07/2021
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You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (2002 Digital Remaster)
Reggae - Lançado por Virgin Records em 01/01/1979
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No Stoppin' This Music
Reggae - Lançado por Roots Records em 18/02/2013
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Original Ganjaman
U Brown, Linval Thompson, Irie Ites
Reggae - Lançado por Evidence Music em 05/04/2024
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Tu Sheng Peng
Reggae - Lançado por Tad's Record em 01/01/1983
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza
Reggae - Lançado por Authentic Jamaican Music em 13/01/2014
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So Long Rastafari
Dub - Lançado por Axx Record Production em 11/05/2019
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza (Extended Version)
Reggae - Lançado por Gorgon Music - VPAL Music em 13/01/2014
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Nuh Kill Fi Dunza (Extended)
Reggae - Lançado por Alexander Music Group em 13/01/2014
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Behold Riddim EP
Anthony Johnson, U Brown, Paco Ten, billyman
World - Lançado por Roots Cooperation em 10/04/2021
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Sound Business
Reggae - Lançado por iMusician | South Rockers Records em 18/02/2024
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