Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea, actually Calvin George Scott, ( born September 3, 1959 in Kingston, Jamaica ) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer.
Life
Cocoa Tea started his career as a teenager in the church and school choir, with whom he the song Searching In The Hills recorded in 1974. He worked for about five years as a jockey on a horse race and as a fisherman.
In 1983 he met the producer Henry " Junjo " Lawes, who together his first hit singles Rocking Dolly and I Lost My Sonia took up with him. In 1985 he was the first album Wha Them A Go Do, Can not Stop Cocoa Tea. By 1988 there were three lesser-known albums before he landed with Who She Love, a recording together with Shabba Ranks and Home T, a hit. In the same year the trio with Pirates Anthem, a hymn of the British pirate radio station had an internationally successful single.
In the early 1990s, Cocoa Tea played two critical songs about the Gulf War one: No Blood For Oil and Oil Ting, both were not allowed to be played on Jamaican radio. In 1992 the album I Am The Toughest and 1995 Holy Mount Zion. In 1997 he recorded a cover version of Bob Marley's Waiting In Vain along with the deejay Cutty Ranks. In the same year, his album Holy Mount Zion appeared on the major label Motown.
Opened in 1998, Cocoa Tea his own record label called Roaring Lion.
Then he released more albums and had the singles Can not tek yuh gal hurt in 1999 and Barack Obama in 2008 number one hits.