
Byron Lee
小简介:
在雷鬼甚至ska传播到加勒比海之外之前,拜仁里就已经是第一个牙买加音乐的乐队了,并且在牙买加音乐的国际化道路上,承担了一个生死攸关的角色。当鲍勃马利刚刚开始奋斗和他的乐队有一点点名气的时候,拜仁李可能是当时国际上最知名的牙买加乐队的领导
In the years before reggae or even ska was known outside of the Caribean, Byron Lee was the first band leader to achieve an international following playing Jamaican music, and played a vital role in popularizing it around the world. And when Bob Marley was a struggling young musician and of the little-known Wailers, Byron Lee was probably the most well-known Jamaican band leader in the world.
Lee was 20 years old when he formed his band the Dragonaires in 1956. They began making a name for themselves almost immediate, as a kind of big-band equivalent to the solo Calypso singing that Harry Belafonte (and Sir Lancelot before him) brought to enormous popularity in the late 1950s. Touring behind Belafonte, ...