The Ethiopians are a group of ska, rocksteady and roots reggae vocal members consisting of three Jamaican: Leonard Dillon Sparrow-like founder-member, Stephen Taylor and Aston Morris.
In 1966, the band recorded with the renowned reggae producer and Studio One label founder, Clement Seymour Sir Coxsone Dodd, their first songs as good or Owe Live I do not pay me.
Two years later, Aston Morris left the band, so Red Mellow Melvin joined as an official member. That same year, he edited The Ethiopians Engine 54, the first long-playing record.
The first success of the group appears in 1968, recorded at Dynamic Studio for WIRL seal with the name of Everything crash, an issue that repudiates the political and social situation that Jamaica was living in those days due to a serious incident in which the police killed 31 people at a demonstration.
Their lyrics and their songs are a before and after in the musical history of Haiti. His lyrics full of religious and social content were pioneering and influential for all the musicians who appeared later in the Jamaican scene, including Bob Marley remembered.
published between 1969 and 1970 consecutively two discs: Reggae Man and Capture Power During the first part of the 70 were ranging from producers and record labels. In 1975, Taylor died after being struck by a truck. turn, Dillon continued the trajectory of the group in 1977 recorded a memorable album: Slave call. This panel begins with an English version of the anthem of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. It also has a striking interpretation Let it be, that pearl that integrates the latest album released by The Beatles in 1970.
Moreover, note that Dillon had gone through some musical wanderings before The Ethiopians, under the pseudonym Jack Sparrow. In 1991, he recorded a solo album called On The Road Again. In 1999 he formed a new edition of The Ethipoans with a female choir composed of vocalists Jennifer Lara and Merlene Webber, who appeared on the album Tuffen Than Stone.
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