Mikey Dread

Mikey Dread ( born January 1, 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, † March 15 2008 in Connecticut ) was a Jamaican singer and producer.

Already during his school days at the Titchfield High School, he led the only student radio station in Jamaica. After his college graduation, he worked for the Jamaican radio JBC, Kingston. There he convinced the program directorate to give him his own show between midnight and four clock in the morning, called " Dread At The Controls", which played exclusively Jamaican music.

His radio show quickly became popular, but the management found his style too wild, and Mikey came back in 1979. But this time he had already released his first album, " Dread at the Controls" collaborated with Trojan Records in the UK.

Then Mikey Dread worked as a producer and singer, including King Tubby, Carlton Patterson and the English punk band The Clash, with whom he went around the world on tour and a lot of influence on the album " Sandinista! " had.

After a visit to the National Broadcasting School in the UK, Mikey got the role as narrator in the television documentary " Deep Roots Music ", which was broadcast in 1982. Subsequently, he received a Moderator position in the series "Rockers Roadshow".

In the early 1990s drew Mikey to Miami to become program director of Caribbean Satellite Network.

Mikey Dread, actually Michael Campbell, died at the age of 54 years in the U.S. state of Connecticut with a brain tumor.

Discography

Studio albums

  • African Anthem ( 1979)
  • Evolutionary Rockers (1979 )
  • World War III (1981 )
  • S.W.A.L.K. (1982)
  • Dub Catalogue Volume 1 (1982 )
  • Dub Merchant ( 1982)
  • Jungle signal ( 1982)
  • Pave the Way ( 1984)
  • Happy Family (1989 )
  • Profiles (1991)
  • African Anthem Revisited (1991 )
  • Obsession ( 1992)
  • SWALK / ROCKERS VIBRATION (1994 )
  • Dub Party (1995 )
  • World Tour (2001)
  • Rasta in Control ( 2002)
  • Life Is a Stage (2007)

Compilations

  • Best Sellers ( 1991)
  • The Prime of Mikey Dread (1999)
  • Reggae musicians
  • Jamaican musicians
  • Born in 1954
  • Died in 2008
  • Man
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