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Frankie Paul

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Frankie Paul (born Paul Blake, 1965-2017) was a prolific Jamaican dancehall and reggae singer, born visually impaired and often dubbed "the Jamaican Stevie Wonder." He rose to fame in the early 1980s and recorded voluminously throughout the decade, scoring a star-making hit with the Junjo Lawes-produced "Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng" (1984). He remained a fixture of Jamaican music until his death in Kingston in 2017.

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Type: Person (artist, selector, producer…) →
Era: Dancehall and the digital turn →
Confidence: Probable
Sources: Wikipedia; AllMusic.

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Michael "Lick Shot" Palmer on 1980s dancehall, Sugar Minott and Frankie Paul

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Filmed artist interview, November 2024 — the evidence that Palmer is living and working, which corrects the archive's earlier death claim. Discovery-only.

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Story · ProbableA French reggae life, in his own words

From a Marley 7-inch on a reggae-starved island in 1977 to four decades inside France's sound systems and music press -- one correspondent's account, written directly to the Atlas, of a scene this archive had barely reached.