Roland Alphonso
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- 1
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- Skatalites
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1931-01-12
- Active to
- 1998-11-20
Discography
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Roland Alphonso (Havana, Cuba, January 12, 1931 - Los Angeles, California, November 20, 1998) aka Rolando Alphonso or The Chief Musician was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist. Alphonso came to Jamaica at the age of two with his Jamaican mother, and started to learn saxophone at the Stony Hill Industrial School. In 1948 he left school to join Eric Deans' orchestra and soon passed through other bands in the hotel circuit and first recorded as a member of Baba Motta's group in 1952. <a href="https://
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of birth
- Havana
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Genre
- ska
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Island Records
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- date of birth
- 1931-01-12
- date of death
- 1998-11-20
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- member of
- The Skatalites
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