Performance · Other credits
Doreen Shaffer
Jamaica
Doreen Shaffer is credited on 56 releases across 34 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
56
Pressings credited
34
Albums
7
Decades active
14
In collections
Biography
Monica Johnson, better known by her stage name Doreen Shaffer (sometimes spelled Schaffer or Schaeffer), is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae singer. Known as the "Queen of Ska", she was a founding member in 1964 of the Skatalites. Following the death of Skatalites member Lester Sterling on 16 May 2023, Shaffer is now the last surviving founding member of the Skatalites.
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Credited work
56 releases · 34 albums · active 1966–2024
- Performance · 74
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Jamaica Recording Studio · Coyote Studios · Flying Toasters Studio · The Loft Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- The Skatalites
- Various
- Dr. Ring-Ding & The Senior Allstars
- Laurel Aitken
- The Slackers
- Tricia
- Bob Andy
- Jackie Edwards
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