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Yellowman
Jamaican reggae singer
"Yellow man" redirects here. For other uses, see Yellow people and Yellowman (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Winston FosterOD,[1][2] (1956[3] or 15 January 1959[4]) better known by the stage name Yellowman and also known as King Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehalldeejay. He first became popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, rising to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation.
Yellowman is considered to be one of the genre's pioneers[5] and has been credited with "almost single-handedly [creating] the coarse, crude and fearlessly direct sound of today's dancehall."[6] Spearheading the first generation of dancehall deejays, he brought the genre to an international audience.[4]
Career
Winston Foster was abandoned by his parents and grew up in the Maxfield Children's Home and the Catholic orphanageAlpha Boys School in Kingston, the latter known for its musical alumni.[7] He was shunned due to having albinism, which was
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LP Yellowman: One In A Million 1989
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By: Carter Van Pelt
As Greensleeves Records celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2022, the VP Music Group highlights the influential label’s key artists and catalog.
Yellowman (born Winston Foster on January 15, 1956) was a transitional figure in Jamaican music, solidifying the reggae emcee’s rise to preeminence in the dancehall and foreshadowing the deejay tsunami to come by the mid-80s. Yellowman’s lyrics were clever, unrestrained and boastful in a way that have resonated for more than four decades across more than 50 albums.
Producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes was top the producer of the early 80s, and Yellowman quickly became his top artist. 1982 was without question the breakout year for Yellowman, with as many as eight albums released by various companies.
VP Records released several of his earliest singles and his first LP, Duppy Or Gunman, as did Greensleeves Records with the equivalent, Mister Yellowman. Both Greensleeves and VP released the emcee’s most enduring, recognizable, sampled, and difficult to spell track, none other than “Zungguzungguguzungg
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