Performance · Production
The Congos
Jamaican reggae vocal group
Jamaica • b. 1977-01-01
The Congos is credited on 90 releases across 34 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
90
Pressings credited
34
Albums
6
Decades active
50
In collections
Biography
The Congos are a Jamaican reggae vocal group from Jamaica which formed as the duo "Ashanti" Roy Johnson (tenor) (b. Roydel Johnson, 1947, Hanover, Jamaica) and Cedric Myton (falsetto) (b. 1947, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica), later becoming a trio with the addition of Watty Burnett (baritone) (b. early 1950s, Port Antonio, Jamaica), and have been active on and off from the mid-1970s until the present day. They are best known for their Heart of the Congos album, recorded with Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
90 releases · 34 albums · active 1978–2022
- Performance · 85
- Production · 33
Studios: Aquarius Studio · The Black Ark · Harry J's Recording Studio · Dynamic Sounds Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Rae & Christian
- Rae&Christian
- Congo
- The Congoes
- Cedric Myton
- Kiddus I
- Groundation
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