Count Machuki

Count Machuki (born Winston Cooper) has been hailed as the first man to speak over a record, the first DJ. One of the original men of the dancehall scene in Jamaica, Machuki worked as a disc selector (eventually to become known as toasters, and then DJs) for Tom the Great Sebastian. On one fateful evening, while Sebastian left the hall to get more liquor for the bar, Machuki began turning new records on the turntable to keep the crowd moving. From a success then, he moved on to other larger halls and worked with bigger names, eventually working with Clement Dodd (Sir Coxsone)....