Theophilus Beckford

Theophilus Beckford ( born December 23, 1935 in Kingston, Jamaica; † 19 February 2001 ) was a Jamaican pianist.

Beckford visited in the 1940s, the Boys Town School at Collie Smith Drive in Trench Town / Kingston. In 1955 he acquired his first piano. In 1956, he played in the band of Cluett Johnson, Clue J & The Blues Blasters and took probably in the same year at the first studio time the young producer Clement Dodd 's later hit " Easy Snappin '" on, the first in 1959 commercially in Jamaica and little later appeared in England on record. Beckford played professionally until the 1970s, mainly as a studio musician, partly as a soloist with his own publications. Producers such as C. S. Dodd, Duke Reid, Prince Buster and Lee Perry attacked you back on his skills.

In February 2001, Beckford was murdered in his home town.

  • Pianist
  • Jamaican musician
  • Man
  • Born in 1935
  • Person (Kingston, Jamaica )
  • Died in 2001
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