About Michael Rose (singer)
Michael Rose is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is most widely known for a successful tenure as the lead singer for Black Uhuru from 1977 to 1984, followed by a lengthy solo career. He has been praised as "one of Jamaica's most distinguished singers" and for launching a distinctive form of reggae singing that originated in his home neighborhood of Waterhouse in Kingston. Rose began performing at talent contests and in the Jamaican hotel circuit as a teenager, and recorded his first single "Woman a Gineal fe True" at age 15 with producer Newton Simmons. Rose spent the next several years honing his songwriting, releasing Born Free discomix in 1976 for Yabby You, whuch was later re-released on Steve Barrow’s Blood and Fire (record label) in 1997.
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