Junior Reid

Delroy "Junior" Reid (born 6 June 1963) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. From 1986 to 1988, he served as lead vocalist for the reggae band Black Uhuru on three albums: Brutal, Positive (1987), and Black Uhuru Live in New York (1988). His solo career is extensive, and is widely regarded as a great of dancehall reggae. He is also known for his guest performances on the Game's 2006 single "It's Okay (One Blood)", as well as the remix of Mims' single, "This Is Why I'm Hot" alongside Baby Cham that same year.

Biography Reid was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and had a tough upbringing in the city's Waterhouse district, notorious for being one of the most dangerous places in Jamaica. It was there in the politically turbulent late '70s that he recorded his first-ever single "Speak the Truth" at the age of 13 for the late Hugh Mundell, released in Jamaica on Augustus Pablo's Rockers International label, and popular as an import single in the United Kingdom. He followed this with "Know Myself" in 1981. Three of the singles he released with Black Uhuru, "Pain", "Nah Get Rich and Switch", and "Let us Pray" were published on Reid's JR Productions label. His collaboration on the first album with Black Uhuru, the Grammy-nominated Brutal, in 1986, was well received. During this time, he toured Europe, the UK, the US, Canada and Bermuda with Black Uhuru.

Two years and three albums later, Reid departed Black Uhuru for a combination of reasons: he had been unable to establish his own identity in the band, having a style close to Michael Rose’s (a long time contributor to Black Uhuru); the group compositionally suffering difficulties and personal crises. Additionally, Reid was interest to produce his own material, with a desire to regain his domestic popularity, to go solo and into his own studio (One Blood Recording Studio), as well as focusing on his own JR Productions label.

Meanwhile, 1989's "One Blood" saw him re-established at the forefront of the reggae scene.

Production work As a producer, Reid has his own production company; JR Productions. He produced two songs on Snow's second album, Murder Love, released in 1995. Reid has collaborated and produced for Dancehall artist Ninjaman, on many occasions since the early 1990s. He has also produced for Mighty Diamonds, Big Youth, Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs.

Discography Albums One Sufferation (10" vinyl) (1980) Boom-Shack-A-Lack (1985) Greensleeves Original Foreign Mind (1985) One Blood (1990, re-released in 1992) Big Life/Mercury Progress (1990) Long Road (1991) Cohiba Big Timer (1993) VP Visa (1994) Greensleeves Junior Reid & The Bloods (1995) RAS Showers of Blessings (1995) Listen to the Voices (1996) RAS RAS Portraits (1997) RAS True World Order (1997) Big Timer (2000) Emmanuel Calling (2000) JR Productions and One Blood Music, Jamaica. Rasta Government (2003) Penitentiary Double Top (2005) Tamoki Wambesi (with Cornell Campbell) Firehouse Clash (with Don Carlos) Live in Berkeley (2007) 2B1 Junior Reid, the Living Legend (2015), ABB

With Voice of Progress Mini Bus Driver (1982) I'm Free (1990)

With Black Uhuru Brutal (1986) Positive (1987) Black Uhuru Live in New York (1987)

Singles As featured performer + List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions AlbumAUS AUT GER IRE NZ UK US USR&B USRap "Si Wi Dem Nuh Know We"(Snow featuring Ninjaman and Junior Reid) 1994 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Murder Love"It's Okay (One Blood)"(The Game featuring Junior Reid) 2006 68 68 41 16 25 26 71 33 16 Doctor's Advocate"Who Wan Test"(Nino Brown featuring Mavado and Junior Reid) 2012 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- We Don't See'em 3

DVD Live in Berkeley (2007) Proper Music Distribution