King Stitt

King Stitt (born Winston Cooper or Winston Sparkes in 1940 with Kingston, Jamaica). It is known as being one of the first DJ of the scene Reggae.

Biography

Count Machuki noticed it at the time of one evening because he danced in a spectacular way and asked to him whether he wanted to test himself with the mixing. Born with a facial malformation, Stitt made its marque of it;: tie profit of the attraction that the islanders had for the westerns, it was made call ugly the ( The Ugly ), by allusion to film of Sergio Leone the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster ( The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ). At the beginning, people came to its shows to check if it were really ugly. Thereafter, it became DJ without needing to play of its handicap, recovering the ideas of the DJ of Miami and New-Orleans diffused on the radio waves in Jamaica.

It is with the Sound system Downbeat of Coxsone that he officiated during major the part of his career.

Discography

Albums:

Fire Corner (Trojan) 1969

Dance Hall '63 (Studio One) middle of the years 1990

Reggae Happy Fire (Jamaica Gold) 1996

Individual:

Lick It back (Clancy' S) 1969

Virgorton 2 (Happy New) 1969

Fire Corner (Happy New) 1969

Lee Van Cleef/Dance Happy (with Clancy Eccles) (Happy New) 1969

HerbsMan Shuffle (with Andy Cape) (ClanDisc) 1969

I For I (ClanDisc) 1970

King Off Kings (ClanDisc) 1970

Sounds Off Seventies (ClanDisc) 1970

Back Out Version (Coxsone) 1970

No Man Version (Coxsone) 1970

Redder Than Fred (Coxsone) 1970

Skank Corner (Iron Side) 1972

Live Jah Up (Studio One) 1979

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