Music Album: Rumplestiltskin / Mouth A Massy
Album Release Date: May 2024
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Goldmaster
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 4 Tracks Vinyl 10"
King of Rocksteady
Born: 1st September 1938 Kingston, Jamaica
Died: 10th October 2008 London, England
Jamaican singer, songwriter, producer and promoter.
Alton Ellis was born in down town Kingston into a musical family and raised in Trenchtown, Kingston. He was the older brother of reggae singer Hortense Ellis and at the end of his life father of 20 children including Noel Ellis.
He grew up being a good dancer and winning some dance contests at Vere Johns' Opportunity Hour. His first musical steps happened in 1959 when he started with Eddie Parkins as Alton & Eddy. He first recorded for Blue Beat, Vincent "Randy" Chin's Randy's later like nearly everyone at that time for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One< (...)
| A1 | Rumplestiltskin |
| A2 | Honeymoon |
| B1 | Mouth A Massy |
| B2 | Swing The Beat |
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