Band Name: Alton Ellis
Music Album: Why Birds Fly
Album Release Date: January 1970
Music Genre: Reggae Ska Rocksteady
Record Label: Studio One
Album Release Country: Jamaica
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl Album 7"
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< (...)
| A | Why Birds Fly |
| B | Why Birds Version |
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