Theophilus Beckford

Theophilus Beckford (born December 23, 1935 in Kingston , Jamaica , † February 19, 2001 , ibid) was a Jamaican pianist .

Beckford attended Boys Town School on Collie Smith Drive in Trenchtown / Kingston in the 1940s . In 1955 he bought his first piano. Already in 1956 he played in the band of Cluett Johnson , Clue J & The Blues Blasters and probably recorded his later hit "Easy Snappin '" in the same year on the occasion of the first studio time of the young producer Clement Dodd , which was initially commercially in Jamaica and little in 1959 later appeared on record in England. Beckford played professionally until the 1970s, mostly as a studio musician, sometimes as a soloist with his own publications. Producers like CS Dodd , Duke Reid , Prince Buster or Lee Perry liked to fall back on his skills.

In February 2001 Beckford was murdered in his hometown.