Jamaica. "A producer for a wide array of artists including Bob Marley, Perry's mastery traversed time and genre, his impact evident from hip hop to post-punk, from The Beastie Boys to The Clash.
Born March 20, 1936 in the rural Jamaican town of Kendal, Rainford Hugh "Lee" Perry left school at age 15, moving to Kingston in the 1960s. "My father worked on the road, my mother in the fields.
We were very poor. I went to school. . . I learned nothing at all. Everything I have learned has come from nature," Perry told the British music outlet NME in 1984. "When I left school there was nothing to do except field work.
Hard, hard labor. I didn't fancy that. So I started playing dominoes. Through dominoes I practiced my mind and learned to read the.
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