Lee Perry is to the music industry as the inventor Thomas Alva Edison was to the incandescent light bulb system. Both their undeniable efforts of inventions and innovations changed the entirety of the world with their inventions and innovations. Lee Perry is now 76 years old and over 45 years in the musical arena and today in the 21st century Lee Perry still being innovative. With the incomparable Time Boom X De Devil Dead album 1987, Lee Perry subsequently laid down a blueprint for all of his work. Solid, dramatically hysterical lyrics distribute over computerised rhythm tracks that can blow your mind with excitingly strange undertakings in every fissure of the vinyl groove and in every twirl of the vinyl record. I Am A Madman, Train To Doomsville, and Kiss The Champion, all from his secret outer space Laboratory. Lee Perry's early life mirrors many of Jamaica's musical super stars. Lee Perry was born poor from a country village, earned an reputation earlier on as some kind of a prudent bloke, more of a wise guy character, went to Kingston in the 1950s, heard the music, learned the moves and developed his own groove. Lee Perry's first job was with pioneering record producer Seymour Clement "Coxsone" Dodd Studio One label, but at that time Coxsone was in charge of Federal Studio, he was errand boy, handy man, bouncer, spy, talent scout, unaccredited songwriter, arranger, and sometimes performer. Perry cut his first record, "Old For New" in 1959. Perry had his first minor authentic hit in 1965 with Chicken Shack but it was plummeted into the Studio One waste paper basket. In1966, after almost seven years with Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One label. Perry then joined with Joe Gibbs, cutting his first moniker recording of, I Am The Upsetter. |
