Byron Lee a Jamaican Chinese offspring Born 27th June 1935 began the dilution of the Ska that made void of the eroticisms that had been obtainable in the original recorded music by the primal record producers of the Ska. Byron Lee as a companion of the upper middle-class, as well as an entertaining performer and record producer himself, was in a first-rate position to have his music promoted because of economical and political ties. This appropriation of downtown culture reached its apotheosis with a Cyprian descendant in Jamaican politics. Edward Seaga, who hailed from a Cyprus background was then the Jamaica Labour Party's minister of development, welfare culture before becoming the Prime Minister of Jamaica. Edward Seaga choose Byron Lee and the Dragonaires for his middle-class upper crust friends and palpable newcomers on the Ska scene. Byron Lee was chosen to be a symbol of Jamaican Ska music at the 1964 World's Fair that was held in New York, rather than the land most well liked innovative band; The Skatalites. However, the Ska took up residence in the United Kingdom during the mid 60's mainly at the expense of nightclubs such as the Ram Jam, Roaring Twenties, Blue Ribbon, Limbo and The Flamingo. Brixton Town Hall and also Stoke Newington Town Hall were renowned for Saturday night blues dance and sound system clashes. In these town halls there was strong competitive clashes from sounds systems with flamboyant names like Soprano B, Supertone, Count Suckle, Count Shelly, Sir Collins, Sir Biggs the President and Duke Vin the Tickler. Duke Vin was a very well liked sound system disc jockey in Jamaica for Tom The Great Sebastian sound system during the late 50's. |
