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Junior Reid

real name Delroy Reid

Kingston, Jamaica · b. 1963-06-06

Junior Reid is credited on 815 releases across 243 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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815

Credits

243

Albums

5

Decades active

96

In collections

Biography

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Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for the songs "One Blood" and "This Is Why I'm Hot", as well as being the lead vocalist for Black Uhuru on three albums in the mid-to-late 1980s, Brutal, Positive and Black Uhuru Live In New York.
His collaborations with Coldcut and Soup Dragons in the late 1980s/early 1990s were coordinated by Jazz Summers at Big Life.
Father of and.
Owns his own label, J.R. Productions aka J.R. Promotions.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

815 releases · 243 albums · active 1981–2025

  • Performance · 781
  • Production · 326
  • Other credits · 14
  • Engineering · 4

Studios: Livingston Studios · Music Mountain Studios · Shakedown Sound Studios · Lion & Fox Recording Studios

Discography

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