Count Ossie

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Jamaica

Active from

1926

Active to

1976-10-18

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Count Ossie, born Oswald Williams, (1926, St. Thomas, Jamaica-18 October 1976) was a Jamaican Rastafari movement drummer and band leader. As a young boy he grew in a rasta community were he learned techniques of vocal chanting and hand drumming. In the late 1950s, he (with other percussionists) formed the Count Ossie Group. His first sound recordings were made after meeting Prince Buster. One of those was a song "Oh Carolina," is regarded by some music historians as the first-ever ska record. <a

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   · 1947 · cited 165x

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   · 1964 · cited 151x

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   · 1995 · cited 145x

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   · 1996 · cited 115x

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   · 2011 · cited 110x

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