Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1946-08-14
- Active to
- 2010-01-12
dubreggaeroots reggae
Discography
- Chant Down Babylon Kingdom
- Deeper Roots (Dub Plates And Rarities 1976 - 1978)
- Deeper Roots Part 2 (More Dubs And Rarities)
- Time To Remember (Vol.1)
- Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel in Ariwa Studio's
- Conquering Lion1975
- King Tubby’s Prophesy of Dub1976
- Deliver Me From My Enemies1977
- Beware Dub1978
- Vocal & Dub1979
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- 100,432
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- 852,930
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Vivian Jackson (14 August 1946 – 12 January 2010) better known as Yabby You (or sometimes Yabby U), was a reggae vocalist and producer, who came to prominence in the early 1970s through his uncompromising, self-produced work. Jackson was born in the Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica in 1946. One of seven children, Jackson left home at the age of twelve to find work at a furnace in Waterhouse. At seventeen, the effects of malnutrition had left him hospitalized <a href="https://www.last.fm
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jackson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Clarendon Parish
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- reggae
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Island Records
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1946-08-14
- date of death
- 2010-01-12
- cause of death
- intracranial aneurysm
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
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