Name Jackie Opel | Role Singer | |
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Albums Cry Me a River, Ska Groove in Japan, In Orbit Vol. 1 Music group The Skatalites (1964 – 1965) Similar People Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Tommy McCook, Lester Sterling, Johnny Moore |
Born Dalton Sinclair Bishop in Chapman Lane, Bridgetown, Barbados in 1937, Jackie Opel was a popular singer who possessed a rich, powerful voice with a high octave range. He was known as the "Jackie Wilson of Jamaica" and was also a gifted dancer.
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- Compact disc
- Compilations
- Legacy
- Jackie opel sit down servant
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In the early 1960s, he was discovered by Byron Lee, the band master of the Dragonaires, who brought him to Jamaica. His styles included ska, R&B, soul, gospel and calypso. He is credited with inventing spouge music, a fusion of ska, calypso, and R&B music. Opel performed duos with Doreen Schaffer and Hortense Ellis, and in 1964 was backed by Wailers Bob Marley and Peter Tosh on "Mill Man", "Hairy Mango" and "A time to cry" and maybe some others like "I Don´t Want Her".

Opel eventually moved to Trinidad and then subsequently returned home to Barbados. On 9 March 1970, he died in a car crash in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Jackie opel tears from my eyes wmv
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Note: ‘You Gotta Cry’ is in fact ‘Cry Me A River’ renamed to avoid confusion with the Julie London standard.
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Compact disc

Compilations
