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Augustus Pablo
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Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist (1954-1999)
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- Listeners
- 411,788
- Total plays
- 6,629,759
Tags
dubreggaeroots reggaemelodicaroots
Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, the melodica king, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was perhaps the first person to use the melodica as a viable musical instrument. He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and learned to play the organ in Kingston College School. It was at that point an unnamed girl lent him the melodica. Fascinated by the instrument, Pablo rarely put it down. <a href="h
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Saint Andrew Parish
- Place of death
- Kingston
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Rastafari
- Genre
- dub music
- Instrument
- melodica
- Record label
- Island Records
- Official website
- myspace.com/officialaugustuspablo
- Image
- Reggae vinyl records.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1954-06-21
- date of death
- 1999-05-18
- birth name
- Horace Swaby
- cause of death
- respiratory failure
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- pseudonym
- Ras Levi
- manner of death
- natural causes
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