Willi Williams

Willi Williams

Willi Williams (also Willie Wilson) is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and producer. He is known as the "Armagideon Man" after his hit, "Armagideon Time", first recorded in 1978 by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One in Kingston. It was covered by The Clash

Biography

Williams was born in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. He attended Trenchtown Comprehensive Hight School, where he was a classmate of Sly Dunbar. He first recorded at Studio One in the late 1960s, while he was still in school. In 1969 he started his own record label called Soul Sounds and among the artists he recorded was Delroy Wilson. He moved to Canada in 1974 and split his time between Toronto, Ontario and Kingston.

He worked with keyboardist Jackie Mittoo, who helped develop Williams' "Armagideon Time", which was the title track of an album released in 1978. The song was later covered by The Clash and featured in the film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Another of Williams' songs is Messenger Man, the title track of a 1980 album.

In 2003, he released the career-spanning anthology album, From Studio One to Drum Street, on his own Drum Street label.

References

• "From Studio One To Drum Street: The Soul Sounds of Willi Williams", by Carter Van Pelt, 2003, Columbia University.

External links

• Official site