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Coxsone Dodd. Clement Seymour " Coxsone " Dodd CD (26 January 1932 – 4 May 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. He was nicknamed "Coxsone" at school due to his talent as a cricketer (his friends compared him to Alec Coxon, a member of the 1940s Yorkshire ...
May 6, 2004 · Coxsone Dodd, the record producer and entrepreneur who helped invent the Jamaican music industry, died on Tuesday night at his studio in Kingston. He was 72. The cause was a heart attack, said his ...
Studio One was founded by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd in 1954, and the first recordings were cut in 1963 on Brentford Road in Kingston. [1] [2] Amongst its earliest records were "Easy Snappin" by Theophilus Beckford , backed by Clue J & His Blues Blasters , and "This Man is Back" by trombonist Don Drummond .
May 3, 2024 · Regarded as Jamaica’s Motown, Coxsone Dodd's Studio One helped launch the careers of legends such as Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, and the Wailers. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Dodd’s passing, learn about 10 of his greatest productions. On April 30, 2004, producer Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd — an architect in the ...
At the helm of this institution was one Clement Seymour “Sir Coxsone” Dodd. Clement Dodd was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 26, 1932. His parents ran the popular “Nanny’s Corner”, a liquor store and restaurant at the corner of Beeston Street and Love Lane where the young Dodd got his first taste of spinning records playing ...
Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd. Known best for his time at the famed Studio One Recording as a producer, Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd, hails from Kingston, Jamaica, born January 26, 1932. While he was an integral figure in the development of Ska and Rocksteady, Sir Coxsone also played a significant role in the development of Reggae as he is seen ...
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Mar 6, 2018 · By Gabriele Caroti. The Motown of Jamaica is Studio One and its version of Berry Gordy would be Clement “Coxsone” Dodd.Arguably the most important figure in Jamaican music, Dodd (1932-2004) discovered and recorded a very young Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston as The Wailers in 1963, opened the first black-owned studio on the island, mentored legends like Lee “Scratch” Perry ...
