Stitchie, Junior Tucker, Yellow Man, Sister Charmaine

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Cleveland Laing (born 29 September 1965), better known as Lieutenant Stitchie, is a Jamaican deejay who originally worked in the dancehall style but switched to gospel reggae in 1997 after surviving a car crash, thereafter working under the shorter name Stitchie.
Laing was born in Spanish Town and worked as a biology teacher at Spanish Town School before embarking on a career in music, for a time pursuing both. In the late 1970s, he began his career as a singer. In the mid-1980s he began working on sound systems such as the Django sound system (as DJ Ranking Noseworthy) and released his first single under the name Ranking Citrus, or Citchie for short is known for his love of citrus fruits. He went on to work on the Stereo One sound system, where he adopted the stage name Stitchie after being credited as such via a misprinted record label. In 1986 he began working with Prince Jammy, recording the single “Wear Yuh Size”, followed in 1987 with his debut album Great Ambition. His style was humorous, often adopting the voices of several different characters during a song. His single “Natty Dread” topped the Jamaican charts for fourteen weeks. Commercial success led to a record deal with Atlantic Records in 1988, Stitchie becoming one of the first dancehall artists, 4 years after Yellowman, to sign a deal with a major record label, releasing the albums The Governor, Wild Jamaican Romances, and Rude Boy.

Described as the LEXICON of Reggae and Dancehall Music, when it comes to writing lyrics, this gifted lyrical genus, with a superb and fast-talking unique style, his matchless storytelling abilities, combined with his powerful vocal delivery makes his music stand up to the harshest of critics. This trendsetter, who is credited in the analogs of history of Reggae Music in Germany, as the first artiste to bring dancehall music to Germany, the Netherlands, and Europe as a whole, who is inscribed on the pages of the Guinness Book of Records of who`s who in Reggae Music, and among his many accolades and achievements, was awarded Iconic Awards by The Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JARIA) and the International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA), 2015 and 2018, respectively, for his outstanding continuous contribution to the development of Reggae and Dancehall Music globally. The only Dancehall Artiste to date that has received 14 #1 songs in one calendar year, he continues to set a blistering pace extremely hard to follow and simultaneously, reinforcing in Reggae and Dancehall Music fraternity, why there is only one “Lt. Stitchie, THE GOVERNOR”.

Leslie Tucker, known as Junior Tucker (born 1966 in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica), is a Jamaican reggae singer, who started his career in secular music but who now sings Christian music. His hits included “Happy” and his own composition, “Don’t Test”.
His first hit was “Happy”, released when he was aged seven years old and was a No. 1 hit single in Jamaica, where he was known as the Jamaican Michael Jackson. “Don’t Test”, one of his first compositions, became an international hit earning him a recording contract with Virgin in 1989. “Don’t Test” peaked at No. 54 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1990.

Winston Foster, (born 1956), better known by the stage name Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, also known as King Yellowman. He was popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, coming to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation
Winston Foster was abandoned by his parents and grew up in the Maxfield Children’s Home and the Catholic orphanage Alpha Boys School in Kingston, and was shunned due to having albinism, which was not typically socially accepted in Jamaica. Alpha Boys School was known for its musical alumni. In the late 1970s, Yellowman first gained wide attention when he finished second (to Nadine Sutherland) in the 1978 Tastee Talent Contest. Like many Jamaican deejays, he honed his talents by frequently performing at outdoor sound-system dances, prominently with Aces International. He had success as a recording artist, working with producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes. In 1981, after becoming significantly popular throughout Jamaica, Yellowman became the first dancehall artist to be signed to a major American label.

Sister Charmaine is perhaps best known for her performances at the infamous Sting stage show in Jamaica. In 1988 she appeared in a clash with Lady Mackerel, and Junie Ranks. In 1989 she clashed once more with Lady G, as well as Patra and Lady P. She was also best known for the single, ‘Granny Advice’, with the memorable lines: ‘she ah hold a kuffin, she ah go get her coffin/if she talk too hard, she ah feel mi baton, yu mussi tink say Charmaine, yu tink she frighten/if yu stick with me, yu ah go ah Madden”