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Kingston’s gritty Trenchtown ghetto honed a vast number of Jamaica’s musical greats, from the roaring King of Reggae, Bob Marley to the scatting singjay originator, Eek-A-Mouse.
Eek-A-Mouse (born Ripton Joseph Hylton in 1957), started singing as early as primary school, released his debut songs in his teens, and was already a superstar in his 20’s during the advent of dancehall. He would come of age in 1979 as both reggae crooning and deejay toasting intermingled on the airwaves. As a result, the youngster tapped a unique merger of the two – a ‘singjay’ style which he helped advance on the scene well into the 1980s.