Dekker, Desmond

Dekker, Desmond
▪ 2007
Desmond Adolphus Dacres 
      Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. July 16, 1941, Kingston, Jam.—d. May 25, 2006, Thornton Heath, Eng.), was the first Jamaican to become an international pop music star, with hits in three genres: ska, rock steady, and reggae. He was working as a welder in 1961 when his auditions for Jamaica's biggest record producers, “Coxsone” Dodd and Duke Reid, failed. Two years later, however, he had a hit on Leslie Kong's Beverley Records with “Honour Your Father and Mother.” Performing ska, the exuberant music that mirrored the optimism sparked by Jamaica's recent independence, Dekker had a series of national hits, including “King of Ska” (backed by the future Maytals) and “Mount Zion.” With his backup group, the Aces, he began celebrating Kingston's “rude boys,” the young gangster-inspired hipsters who reflected the increasing disappointment that many Jamaicans felt as the 1960s progressed. Dekker's rock steady rude-boy classic “007 (Shanty Town)” shot into the British charts in 1967, and in 1969 he cracked the American market with “Israelites.” The next year, having relocated to the U.K., he had a huge reggae hit with the Jimmy Cliff-written “You Can Get It If You Really Want.” Dekker's music suffered after Kong died in 1971, although his career experienced a brief upturn during the ska revival of the late 1970s and early '80s. By 1984 Dekker was bankrupt, but he continued to record and perform.

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