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Junior Byles (born Kenneth Byles Jr. in a poor part of Kingston on 2 February 1948; died 15 May 2025) was a Jamaican reggae artist remembered for his song 'Fade Away', with its strong spiritual warnings about materialism and egoism. Recorded in 1975 for producer Joseph Hoo Kim, it was a massive hit in Jamaica and was also a big success in the UK, and was covered five years later by among others Adrian Sherwood's New Age Steppers group and by Salmonella Dub NZ, made a special version of it. <a hr
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Kingston
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- reggae
- Record label
- Trojan Records
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- Junior Byles2.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-07-17
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- Junior Byles
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- date of death
- 2025-05-15
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
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