Count Matchuki

Winston Cooper (–1995), better known as Count Matchuki or Count Machuki, was a Jamaican deejay.

Biography Cooper was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and began working on sound systems in the 1950s, when the music played was largely American R&B. His stage name of Count Matchuki derived from his habit of chewing matchsticks. He added talkovers to the songs, emulating the jive talk of American radio DJ's at the request of Dodd, who became familiar with the US style on his visits to the States to buy records to play on his sound system. He thus originated a deejay style that was later developed by artists such as U-Roy. Matchuki started by adding spoken introductions to the records that were played, taking inspiration from the American magazine Jive.

Winston "Count Matchuki" Cooper died in 1995.