Prince Buster

Prince Buster ( born May 24, 1938 in Kingston, Jamaica as Cecil Bustamante Campbell ) is a ska musicians of the first hour.

Life

Cecil Bustamante Campbell grows as the son of a railway worker on in the Jamaican capital Kingston. As a young man he tried his hand at amateur boxer and was there even quite successful. Briefly, he also appeared in some ska events, but not as a musician but as a bouncer. However, in 1961 he gets a job as a security guard for the famous producer Sir Coxsone Dodd and his Downbeat sound system ( in which later the Skatalites and Bob Marley recordings made ​​).

He slowly works his way up and may eventually make their own recordings in the studio. Soon he became self-employed and founded his own Sound System: The Voice of the People. In addition, he even opened a record shop - " Buster's Record Shack ".

With its own version of Oh Carolina - Folkes Brothers he takes on one of the first ska songs. And with Al Capone, it creates a recorded song in Jamaica for the first time ever in the top 20 charts in Britain.

In his main work time beginning to end of the 1960s he takes on more than 600 songs with Emil Shallits Blue Beat label. In the second and third wave ska in the 1970s and 1980s, his music is rediscovered. The well-known two-tone band Madness names even after one of his songs and dedicated him their first single "The Prince ".

In the seventies and eighties little of it can be heard. Then he 's back and she accompanied the Skatalites in their tours. In 1998, he takes on a new version of his hit Whine And Grine, which is used by Levi's for advertising purposes, so that it comes back into the charts.

In 1964, he converted to Islam and changed his name to after a meeting with the boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali Muhammed Yusef.

Prince Buster took in his career on a single Dubplate, which he dedicated to the English radio Selector David Rodigan.

Since 1980, Yusef Ali lives in Miami, Florida (USA).

Discography

  • Independence Song ( Blue Beat BB116 ), 1962
  • I Feel The Spirit ( Blue Beat BBLP802 ), 1963
  • Fly Flying Ska ( Blue Beat BBLP803 ), 1964
  • Pain in my belly ( Blue Beat BBLP804 ), 1965
  • Ska -Lip - Soul ( Blue Beat BBLP805 ), 1965
  • It's Burke 's Law / Jamaica Ska Explosion ( Blue Beat BBLP806 ), 1965
  • What a hard man fe dead ( Blue Beat BBLP807 ), 1966
  • Prince Buster On Tour ( Blue Beat BBLP808 ), 1967
  • Ten Commandments ( RCA LSP3792 ), 1967
  • Judge Dread Rock Steady ( Blue Beat BBLP809 ), 1967
  • Prince Buster Fabulous Greatest Hits (FAB MS 1 ), 1967
  • Wreck A Pum Pum ( Blue Beat BBLP821 ), 1968
  • Tutti Frutti ( Melodisc MS6 ), 1968
  • She was a rough rider ( Blue Beat BBLP820 ), 1968
  • Welcome To Jamaica / Wreck A Pum Pum ( Blue Beat BBLP821 ), 1968
  • The Outlaw ( Blue Beat BBLP822 ), 1969
  • Big Five ( Melodisc M12 -157 ), 1972
  • Jamaica's Greatest ( Melodisc MLP 12-158 ), 1972
  • Dance Cleopatra Dance ( Blue Elephant BE 811 001 -H ), 1972
  • Whine And Grine ( Iceland Records ), 1998
  • Rock a Shacka ( Vol.01 ) - Prince of peace ( with Determinations; live in Japan)
  • Greatest Hits ( PB01 Melodisc MS2)
  • 15 Oldies but Goodies (FAB MS4)
  • The Message Dubwise (FAB MS7 )
  • Chi Chi Run ( FAB MS8 )
  • Sister Big Stuff ( Melodisc MS12 -156 )
Blue Beat Records 2-tone Madness (band)
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