Edi Fitzroy

b. 17 November 1955, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. Fitzroy, like many teenagers, followed the sound systems, in particular, a sound called Anchio One. After leaving school he started a career with the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation working as an accounts clerk. With a colleague, in his spare time he would often sing over dubs and play them back using the radio station's equipment. In 1975 Mikey Dread was the station's top disc jockey, playing reggae on his Dread At The Controls Show, and he heard Fitzroy's demos. Fitzroy's first hit, ‘Miss Molly Colly', broke into the Ja...