| | Clement “Coxsone” Dodd is synonymous with the development of Jamaican music. Clement Seymour Dodd has been the beneficiary of countless honours praises and awards even receiving the Jamaica Order of Distinction, the third highest honour given by the Jamaican government for his contributions to Jamaica's music industry first as a sound system operator and proprietor who went on to own the first self sufficient recording studio in Jamaica where he made his name as producer of studio one records creating a record label that has become famous the world known as the Studio one label. Coxsone career in music span over six decades, having set a daunting and imposing standard of imaginative brilliance that played a decisive important role in moulding the Jamaican music industry that gained fame and global embracement liken to Mowtown. Clement Seymour Dodd was born in Kingston, Jamaica WI on the 26th January 1932 to Mr & Mrs Benjamin Dodd, his father was a local building contractor. While attending the All Saints school in Kingston he was moniker with the name of Coxsone, due to his dexterity in the field as an all-round cricketer. Coxsone was a brilliant batsman for the well renown Yorkshire cricket team during the early 1940's. Coxsone had a brief spell when only seventeen gained a farm working contract as a cane cutter in the USA. Clement Dodd was well hip on the music he heard where Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Be-Bop and Swing was quite popular at rented parties and open air venues in the America. This gave him and idea which he could take back to Jamaica. | |
