Charlie Chaplin (reggae)

Charlie Chaplin (of its true name Richard Simpleton ) is a singer of reggae and dancehall jamaïcain. Its career started in the years 1980 when it took part in the Sound system Stur-Gav Hi-Fi of U Roy. It represents the side Conscious Rasta Dancehall of the Eighties in opposition to the Slackness of Yellowman.

Discography

Fire Burn Them Below (1984)

Dancehall Rockers (1985)

Two Sides Off Charlie Chaplin (1989)

20 Super Hits

Close-cropped Portraits

Precision on its pseudonym

The artists Reggae pay homage to their actors or characters of favorite films (often of the gangsters) by adapting their name quite simply:

Charlie Chaplin, actor and realizer;

Clint Eastwood, actor and realizer;

Rod Taylor, actor;

Refusals Alcapone according to Al Capone, gangster;

Dillinger according to John Dillinger, gangster;

Nigger Kojak according to Kojak, police officer of fiction;

John Wayne, actor of western;

Josey Wales, character of western;

King Kong, monkey of fiction;

Louie Lepke according to Louis " Lepke" Buchalter, gangster;

Trinity according to Trinita, character of western;

Lone To arrange according to The Lone To arrange, character of western;

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