Desmond Dekker
Sign in to saveJamaican ska singer-songwriter (1941–2006)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1942-07-16
- Died
- 2006-05-24
- Works
- 2
Top works
- This is Trojan boss reggae
- Israelites 1963-99 (2) (CDTRD442)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound
Known for
- Reggae at the BBC — Self2011
- Goldener Löwe — Self1984
- 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet — Self1966
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 496,229
- Total plays
- 5,484,783
Tags
skareggaerocksteadyjamaicaroots reggae
Desmond Dekker (born in Kingston, Jamaica on 16 July 1941 - deceased 25 May 2006), was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had the first international Jamaican hit, Israelites. Other hits include 007 (Shanty Town) (1967) and It Mek (1968). Before the ascent of Bob Marley, Dekker was the best-known Jamaican musician outside of his country, and one of the most popular within it. <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,798x
- Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega
· 2011 · cited 14,251x
- Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires
· 2007 · cited 8,715x
- Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome
· 2009 · cited 8,358x
- T-coffee: a novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment 1 1Edited by J. Thornton
· 2000 · cited 5,946x
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Key dates
- Born
- 16 July 1942
- Died
- 24 May 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Dekker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Thornton Heath
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- reggae
- Instrument
- voice
Connections
Categories
1941 births2006 deaths20th-century Jamaican male singersBurials at Streatham Park CemeteryFirst-wave ska groupsIsland Records artistsJamaican emigrants to the United KingdomJamaican male songwritersJamaican reggae musiciansMusicians from Thornton HeathPeople from Saint Andrew Parish, JamaicaRocksteady musicians