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Errol Dunkley (born 6 February ), sometimes spelled Erroll Dunkley, is a Jamaican reggae musician, born in Kingston, Jamaica in...
Errol Dunkley
by Eric Doumerc
(August 2007)
Errol Dunkley was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1951 and made his first record at the age of 14.Jamaican rocksteady singer enjoyed success with a number of fine s singles.
He recorded for all the major producers there in the 1960's (Prince Buster, Joe Gibbs, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, Rupie Edwards), but as success was not forthcoming, he founded a recording label with Gregory Isaacs (African Museum) and had a hit record with a song based on Delroy Wilson's "I Don't Know Why" and retitled "Movie Star."
In 1972, Dunkley had another hit with "Black Cinderella" for the producer Jimmy Radway.
In the same year his first album (Presenting Errol Dunkley) was released, produced by Sonia Pottinger. Backed by a crack session band known as the Gaysters, Dunkley was at his best on songs like Barbara Lynn's "You're Gonna Need Me," "Movie Star," "Created by the Father" and "A Little Way Different", which became more or less his signature tune:
Every man do his things a little way different,
The things you do, you do