Artist · Jamaica
Big Youth
Since 1949
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About
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.
He commented, "Deejays were closest to the people because there wasn't any kind of establishment control on the sound systems".
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Big Youth, Manley Augustus Buchanan de son vrai nom, est un chanteur, DJ de reggae jamaïcain né le 19 avril 1949 dans le quartier de Trenchtown à Kingston. Deejay très connu, il a commencé en opérant dans des sound systems de Kingston au début des années 1970. Il est encore en activité aujourd'hui.
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Discography
Albums
- 1972 Chi Chi Run
- 1972 Screaming Target
- 1975 Dreadlocks Dread
- 1976 Hit the Road Jack
- 1976 Natty Cultural Dread
- 1978 Isaiah First Prophet of Old
- 1978 Reggae Gi Dem Dub
- 1979 Progress
- 1980 Rock Holy
- 1981 Some Great Big Youth
- 1982 The Chanting Dread Inna Fine Style
- 1985 A Luta Continua
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Singles
- 1972 Movie Man
- 1979 Cant Take Wah Happen Ona West
- 1979 Peace at Last / The Royal Line of David
- 1994 Gun fi Dump
- 2005 6 Dead 19 Gone a Jail
- 2005 Four Sevens
- 2008 Jahman of Syreen / Hotter Fire
- 2008 Screaming Target
- 2011 Beauty Queen
- 2012 Bail Out
- 2013 Facts of Life / Medicine Doctor
- 2013 Live Right
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- 2022 Long Road
- 2023 I Shall Be Released
- A So We Stay
- All Nation Bow
- Cassava Rock
- Dread Ina Babylon / I Pray Thee Continually
- Every Nigger Is a Star
- Give Thanks / Mystic Vibration
- Hit The Road Jack / Hell Is For Heroes
- Love Is the Light
- Mosiah Garvey
- Running Up and Down
- The Great Roy Shirley / Johnny Reggae / Buck and the Preacher
