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Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940, Dean Pen, St. Mary, Jamaica – 30 June 2005, Spanish Town, Jamaica) was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works, he brought a political dimension to this music. His house band was known as The Dynamites. Son of a tailor and builder, Clancy Eccles spent his childhood in the countryside of the parish of Saint Mary, where he used to attend regularly church cult and bec
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Saint Mary Parish
- Place of death
- Spanish Town
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- ska
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Island Records
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- date of birth
- 1940-12-09
- date of death
- 2005-06-30
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
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Clancy Eccles, född den 9 december 1940 i Dean Pen, Jamaica, död 30 juni 2005, var en jamaicansk reggaemusiker, musikproducent, låtskrivare och sångare. Han började sin musikaliska karriär som sångare i Coxsone Dodds "" 1959, men bestämde sig 1967 för att öppna en egen inspelningsstudio. Till sin hjälp hade han husbandet , med bland annat på klaviatur. Enligt Winston Holness, en samtida musikproducent, var Clancy Eccles personen som myntade uttrycket "reggae".
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