Judy Mowatt

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Judy Mowatt at a concert in the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm , Sweden on June 15, 1977

Judy Mowatt (born November 11, 1952 in Gordon Town , Saint Andrew Parish , Kingston , Jamaica ) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and producer. She is one of the most famous reggae artists worldwide, but is also known in the soul and gospel scene.

From 1967 to 1970 she was a member of the vocal trio The Gaylettes . From 1974 she formed the I-Threes , the background vocal trio of Bob Marley And The Wailers , together with Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley .

Life

Childhood and youth

Judy Mowatt grew up in the capital Kingston on the island of Jamaica . As a girl she sang in the church choir and when she was 14 she joined the Dance Squad in 1966, which toured the Caribbean . After a few years, Mowatt and two of her friends, Beryl Lawson and Merle Clemonson , were in a dance troupe. They wanted to try to sing professionally and so soon afterwards they formed the trio The Gaylettes .

An early form of reggae called early reggae had begun, but the trio was more influenced by American soul and rhythm and blues . The band got a recording deal from Motown and became successful.

Discography (excerpt)

The Gaylettes

  • We Shall Sing - The Gaylettes featuring Judy Mowatt - 1967-73

I-threes

Bob Marley And The Wailers

  • 1974 - Natty Dread
  • 1975 - Live!
  • 1976 - Rastaman vibration
  • 1977 - Exodus
  • 1978 - Babylon By Bus
  • 1978 - Kaya
  • 1979 - survival
  • 1980 - Uprising
  • 1983 - Confrontation
  • 1984 - Legend
  • 1991 - Legend (VHS)
  • 1991 - Talkin 'Blues
  • 1992 - Songs Of Freedom
  • 1994 - Live On Wailing Souls
  • 1996 - Mama Africa
  • 1998 - Chicago Live 1975
  • 2002 - Babylon by Bus (new edition)
  • 2002 - Confrontation (new edition with bonus track)
  • 2001 - Exodus (new edition with bonus tracks)
  • 2001 - Exodus (Deluxe Edition)
  • 2001 - Kaya 2001 (new edition with bonus track)
  • 2001 - Kaya (new edition with Japanese bonus track)
  • 2001 - Live! (Expanded)
  • 2001 - One Love: The Very Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers
  • 2001 - Survival (new edition with bonus track)
  • 2001 - Trench Town Rock (Box Set: 95 pieces from the collaboration with Lee "Scratch" Perry )
  • 2001 - Uprising (new edition with bonus tracks)
  • 2002 - Legend (Deluxe Edition)
  • 2002 - Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition)
  • 2003 - Babylon by Bus / Catch a Fire / Burnin ' (Live CD)
  • 2003 - Exodus / Survival / Confrontation
  • 2003 - Legend (2 CDs + DVD)
  • 2003 - Live At The Roxy: The Complete Concert
  • 2003 - Uprising / Kaya / Catch a Fire
  • 2004 - gold
  • 2005 - Live At The Rainbow (DVD)
  • 2007 - Exodus (30th birthday edition (CD)) and
  • 2002 - Exodus (30th Anniversary Edition (DVD))
  • 2008 - Kaya (bonus track)
  • 2008 - Legend 2

Solo albums

  • Tracks: Mellow Mood, Love Seed, I'm Alone, What An Experience, Mr. Big Man, Pour Sugar On Me, You Were Too Good For Me, First Cut, Just A Stranger Here, Rasta Woman Chanto, My My People, Never Let Me Go
  • Black Woman (Grove Music, 1980)
  • Tracks: Strength To Go Through, Concrete Jungle, Slave Queen, Put It On, Zion Chant, Black Woman, Down In The Valley, Joseph, Many Are Called, Sisters Chant
  • Tracks: You're My People, Only A Woman, Trade Winds, Think, Got To Leave The West, I Am Not Mechanical, On Your Mark, Big Woman, You Dont Care, King Of Kings
  • Working Wonders (Shanachie, 1985)
  • Tracks: Black Man, Brown Man; Working Wonders, Lovemaking, Let's Dance, So Many Eyes, Mother Africa, Ethiopia Salaam, Hush Baby Mother, Traveling Woman, King's Highway
  • Love Is Overdue (Shanachie, 1986)
  • Tracks: Sing Your Own Song (UB40), Love Is Overdue, Try A Little Tenderness, Long Long Time, Rock Me, Get Up and Chant, Screwface (Marley), Hold Her Jah, One More Time, Who's That
  • Look at Love (Shanachie, 1991)
  • Rock me (1993)
  • Something Old, Something New (2002)
  • Sing Our Own Song (2003)

Solo singles

  • Silent River (1968) by The Gaylettes
  • I Shall Sing (1974)
  • Only A Woman (1975)
  • Joseph (1980)
  • Black Woman (1980)
  • I Am Not Mechanical (1982)
  • Let's Dance (1985)
  • Look at Love (1991)
  • Stop In The Name Of Love (1992)
  • Rock me (1993)
  • Simmer Down (1994)
  • Stop! In The Name Of Love (1999)
  • Something Old, Something New (2002)
  • Sing Our Own Song (2003)
  • Big Woman (2005)

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personal data
SURNAME Mowatt, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mowatt, Judith Veronica (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Gordon Town , Saint Andrew Parish