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Dennis Bovell

reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer

Barbados · b. 1953-05-22

Dennis Bovell is credited on 1,234 releases across 381 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1973–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,234

Credits

381

Albums

Decades active

131

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Biography

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Bovell was born in St. Peter, Barbados in 1953, but grew up in London. He early became fascinated by dub and set up his Jah Sufferer sound system.
Bovell is a legend – a bass player legend (band leader of the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson Band) – a producer legend (THE SLITS, Fela Kuti, Bananarama, Madness, Joss Stone, a.o.). He produced the soundtrack for the critically highly acclaimed movie Babylon and the hit song “Silly Games" by Janet Kay. In recent years his works regained interest, also due to the recent rerelease of the 80’s movie Babylon and his participation in Steve Mc Queens drama series Small Axe about the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community, set btw 1969-82.
In 2019 Vienna’s Dubblestandart produced a limited selection of reworks of reggae classics of Dennis Bovell’s 1980’s band Matumbi, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Twinkle Brothers, Culture a.o., focusing on works that have been pivotal for the inspiration of Dubblestandart’s bandleader Paul Zasky.

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