Fred Locks
b. Stafford Elliot, c.1955, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Locks began his sporadic recording career as a member of the Lyrics, who recorded tracks such as "A Get It", "Girls Like Dirt", and "Hear What The Old Man Say" for Coxsone Dodd in the late 60s, "Give Praises" for Randy's, and the self-financed "Sing A Long", both in 1971. The Lyrics disbanded shortly afterwards, and Locks, discouraged by the lack of financial reward endemic to the Jamaican music business, immersed himself in the Rasta faith, which was at the time gaining significant ground among Jamaica's ghetto youth, and he retired to live a spartan existence on the beach at Harbour View. During this time, Locks allowed his dreads to grow to a formidable length - hence his nickname - and continued to write songs, one of which, a prophetic Garveyite vision of repatriation entitled "Black Star Liners", he was persuaded to record by producer Hugh Boothe.
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Albums
- (2006) Black Star Liner
Top Tracks
- True Rastaman
- Black Star Liners
- I've Got A Joy
- Vision Of Redemption
- Don't Let Babylon Use You
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