Lee Perry was born in Kendal, Jamaica W. I. on the 28th March 1936. But when one consider that Lee Perry was christened with the name of Rainford Hugh Perry, born in a little country village
of underprivileged background. It's hard to believe that Lee Perry was just an ordinary person, who could produced the kind of music that came out of the Black Ark Recording Studio. So much has been written about "Scratch" and his music that what is written here may not do him justice. There are those who say that to some extent he is a peculiar entity but who cares! If everyone in this world behaved to everyone else's liking, our very existence would be dull. Give us more people like Lee Perry. After the destruction of his Black Ark Recording Studio in 1979, and his many subsequent setbacks that he had experienced over the years. Lee Scratch Perry more or less glided away into the shadows of ill-forgotten obscurity. The days of producing innovative recordings were literally gone. Since the crack of dawn as regards recorded music in Jamaica, the man christened Rainford Hugh Perry has been the fountainhead of modernisation and originality. His unswerving musical contributions is colossal and his influence was unmistakable throughout the latter part of the 70's and throughout the 80s of Jamaican music. Lee Perry was much, much more than just a singer, songwriter, producer, mixer of the dub, talent scout and entrepreneur. Would anyone really dare
to produce a document of his life's work? That alone would be an absolute daunting task for anyone to even try and attempt to catalogue his entire musical output. Although there were other groups besides The Wailers, Perry took to shaping the team of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston (Bunny Wailer) made them ready for the world stage. |
