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Glen Adams (b. Glenroy Phillip Adams, 1950) is a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York. Adams' first break in the music business came as a teenager when he appeared as a singer on Radio Jamaica's Opportunity Knocks show hosted by Vere Johns, and he began performing in Kingston and St. Andrews at weekends. He made his first record, "Wonderthirst", in 1960 for Coxsone Dodd at Federal Recording Studio, the title of the song becom
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Kingston
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- ska
- Instrument
- Hammond organ
- Record label
- Island Records
- Image
- Glen Adams.jpg
- Work location
- Brooklyn
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- date of death
- 2010-12-17
- date of birth
- 1945-11-27
- start of work period
- 2010-00-00
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