Little Roy

Little Roy (born Earl Lowe, 1953, in Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist.

Biography Little Roy began his career at the age of 12 years in 1965 recording a few unsuccessful tracks with producers Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster. He was the first to record a song with the word 'reggae' in the lyric, with producer Prince Buster who named him Little Roy. He had his first number one hit with "Bongo Nyah" (1969) at the age of 16 years for Lloyd Daley ("the Matador"), the first song about the Rastafari movement to be successful commercially in Jamaica.

Discography Studio albums Tribal War (1975) Columbus Ship (1981), Tafari/Copasetic Prophesy (1989) Live On (1991) Long Time (1996), On-U Sound Gregory Isaacs meets Little Roy (1996) More From A Little (1999) Children of the Most High (2005) Heat (2010), Pharos Battle for Seattle (2011), Ark (UK chart peak: No. 111) Right Now (2016)

Compilations Prophecy (1989), Tafari Tafari Earth Uprising (1996), Pressure Sounds Packin' House (1999), Pressure Sounds (Little Roy & Friends)

Singles (partial) 1969 – "Bongo Nyah" / "Bad Name" (Little Roy and The Creations) (Camel, Randy's Randy Chin, Pama Records) 1969 – "Without My Love" / "Here I Come Again" (Little Roy and Winston Samuels) (Crab Records) 1970 – "Scrooge" / "In The Days of Old" (Camel) 1970 – "You Run Come" / "Skank King" (Camel) 1971 – "Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday" / "Yes Sir" (Escort) 1977 – "Prophecy" (The Morwells Esq label ) 1989 – "Prophecy" (Original Press) 2014 – "Disaster and Signs" (Tuff Scout) 2015 – "The Right Way" (Tuff Scout)