Prince Buster

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Prince Buster (2008)
Prince Buster (2008)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Ten Commandments
  US 81 02/04/1967 (4 weeks)
Al Capone
  UK 18th 02/23/1967 (13 weeks)
Whine and Grine
  DE 71 05/11/1998 (4 weeks)
  UK 21st 04/04/1998 (4 weeks)

Prince Buster (born May 24, 1938 in Kingston , Jamaica as Cecil Bustamante Campbell , † September 8, 2016 in Miami , Florida ) was a ska musician from the very beginning.

Life

Cecil Bustamante Campbell grew up as the son of a railroad worker in the Jamaican capital Kingston. As a young man he tried his hand at boxing as a hobby and was quite successful at it. For a short time he also appeared at some ska events, but not as a musician, but as a bouncer. In 1961, however, he got a job as a security guard for the famous producer Sir Coxsone Dodd and his Downbeat Sound System (which later also recorded the Skatalites and Bob Marley ).

He slowly worked his way up and was finally allowed to make his own recordings in the studio. Soon he went into business for himself and founded his own sound system: The Voice of the People . He also opened his own record store, the "Buster's Record Shack".

He recorded one of the first ska songs with his own version of Oh Carolina by the Folkes Brothers. And with Al Capone made it a recorded song in Jamaica for the first time ever in the Top 20 charts of Great Britain .

In his main creative period beginning to the end of the 1960s he took more than 600 songs by Emil Shallits Blue Beat - Label on. His music was rediscovered during the second and third waves of Ska in the 1970s and 1980s. The well-known British two-tone band Madness named themselves after one of his songs and dedicated their first single The Prince to it . One of the best known and most successful singles from Madness is a cover version of Busters One Step Beyond , at the same time her debut album is named after it.

Little was heard from him in the 1970s and 1980s. Then he got back and accompanied the Skatalites on their tours. In 1998 he recorded a new version of his hit Whine and Grine , which was used by Levi's for promotional purposes, so that he returned to the charts.

In 1964, he converted to Islam and changed his name after a meeting with the boxer Muhammad Ali in Muhammed Yusef Ali order.

Prince Buster recorded only one dubplate in his career , which he dedicated to the English radio selector David Rodigan .

From 1980 Yusef Ali lived in Miami , Florida . There he died on September 8, 2016 at the age of 78 after several strokes.

Discography

  • Independence Song (Blue Beat BB116), 1962
  • I Feel the Spirit (Blue Beat BBLP802), 1963
  • Fly Flying Ska (Blue Beat BBLP803), 1964
  • Pain in My Belly (Blue Beat BBLP804), 1965
  • Ska-Lip-Soul (Blue Beat BBLP805), 1965
  • It's Burke's Law / Jamaica Ska Explosion (Blue Beat BBLP806), 1965
  • What a Hard Man fe Dead (Blue Beat BBLP807), 1966
  • Prince Buster on Tour (Blue Beat BBLP808), 1967
  • Ten Commandments (RCA LSP3792), 1967
  • Judge Dread Rock Steady (Blue Beat BBLP809), 1967
  • Prince Buster Fabulous Greatest Hits (FAB MS1), 1967
  • Wreck A Pum Pum (Blue Beat BBLP821), 1968
  • Tutti Frutti (Melodisc MS6), 1968
  • She Was a Rough Rider (Blue Beat BBLP820), 1968
  • Welcome to Jamaica / Wreck A Pum Pum (Blue Beat BBLP821), 1968
  • The Outlaw (Blue Beat BBLP822), 1969
  • Big Five (Melodisc M12-157), 1972
  • Jamaica's Greatest (MELODISC MLP 12-158), 1972
  • Dance Cleopatra Dance (Blue Elephant BE 811.001-H), 1972
  • Whine and Grine (Island Records), 1998
  • Live at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival (Prince Buster & the Aggrolites), 2003
  • Rock a Shacka (Vol.01) - Prince of Peace (with Determinations; live in Japan)
  • Greatest Hits (PB01 Melodisc MS2)
  • 15 oldies but goodies (FAB MS4)
  • The Message Dubwise (FAB MS7)
  • Chi Chi Run (FAB MS8)
  • Sister Big Stuff (MELODISC MS12-156)

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ↑ Prince Buster died . MusikWoche , September 9, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Prince Buster
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Cecil Bustamante (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican ska musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2016
Place of death Miami , Florida , United States