U Roy

About the artist

U Roy AKA Ewart Beckford, Hugh Roy. Born in 1942, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. began as a sound system DJ in 1961, spinning records for the Doctor Dickies set, later known as Dickies Dynamic, in such well-known Jamaican venues as Victoria Pier, Foresters Hall and Emmett Park. His inspiration was the DJ Winston Count Machuki, who worked for Coxsone Dodd and subsequently on Prince Buster's Voice Of The People sound system. By the mid-60s he was DJ for Sir George The Atomic, based around Maxfield Avenue in Kingston.

Top songs

1. Wake The Town
2. Wear You to the Ball
3. Tom Drunk
4. Natty Rebel
5. Rule The Nation
6. Words of Wisdom
7. Tide is High
8. Your Ace From Outer Space
9. Joyful Locks
10. On the Beach

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