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Big Joe (reggae)

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Birth name
  
Joseph Spalding

Genres
  
Reggae

Role
  
Deejay

Name
  
Big Joe

Origin
  
Kingston, Jamaica


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Albums
  
Keep Rocking & Swinging, At The Control, At the Controls

Similar People
  
Muttonheads, Eden Martin, Peter Tosh

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Big Joe (born Joseph Spalding; 1955) is a Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer, who recorded extensively in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Biography

Spalding was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1955, and began his recording career in the early 1970s working with producer Harry Mudie. He then worked with producer Winston Edwards and had a hit single with "Selassie Skank". He moved on to record for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One and set up his own Small Axe Hi Fi sound system and a record label. In the 2000s Spalding had success as a hip hop producer and recording engineer.

Discography

  • Keep Rocking And Swinging (1976) Celluloid
  • At The Control (1978) Live & Love
  • African Princess (1978) Thompson Sound/Trojan
  • References

    Big Joe (reggae) Wikipedia