Junior Braithwaite

Junior Braithwaite ( born April 4, 1949 in Kingston, † June 2, 1999 ibid; actually Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite ) was a Jamaican singer. It received its name from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Braithwaite grew up in the ghettos of Kingston. There he met Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer know. Thanks to the help of Roy Wilson, Braithwaite's stepbrother, and Joe Higgs, he could sing the Jamaican producer Coxsone Dodd, where he produced their first hit Simmer Down along with Marley, Tosh, Wailer, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith as The Wailing Wailers. Braithwaite was only 13 years old and took the part of the first tenor. As a result, Braithwaite sang the main part of the song It Hurts To Be Alone and some other songs and made with the Wailers few concerts in Jamaica.

In 1965 he emigrated with his family from Jamaica to the United States, which he also left the Wailers, who were well known by the sequence by Tosh, Wailer and especially Marley. In America Braithwaite continued his education continued at a Catholic high school and then went to the University of Chicago to study medicine. He sang continue in smaller local reggae groups in the 1970s, when Marley was internationally successful with the Wailers.

1981 Braithwaite flew back to Jamaica when he was invited by Marley to a meeting of the "original Wailers ". He was trying to get support for his music career at Marley. Marley was already terminally ill and wanted to make music before his death with the "original Wailers " in the Tuff Gong studios. As Marley died on the return flight from Germany to Miami, Braithwaite remained for a while with Bunny Wailer and Alvin Patterson, the percussionist of the former Wailers, before he returned to Chicago. 1984 Bunny Wailer tried by the "Never Ending Wailers " project to bring together the "original Wailers " again and invited Tosh, Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith to visit him; an album was produced, but the reunion never manifested itself, also because Tosh was then on tour and through his work with the Rolling Stones as a solo artist was ever more successful.

Braithwaite tried several times to start a music career, but failed in spite of his musical diversity ( he could also guitar, bass guitar and keyboard play ) always lack of money. In August 1984, he joined with Bunny Wailer and Beverley Kelso at Madison Square Garden as a surprise guest on. Most recently, he tried in 1997 to launch his solo career in Jamaica again.

Braithwaite was creditor of the Rastafari doctrine. He was shot in Kingston by three men in 1999.

  • Reggae singer
  • Rastafari
  • Bob Marley
  • Jamaican musician
  • Pseudonym
  • Born in 1949
  • Died in 1999
  • Man
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