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COCOA TEA "The Sweetest" tribute mixtape #ONEMANONEMIXONELOVE series vol.05
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- Vol.04
MAD COBRA: Chronicsound – Chronic-sound-mad-cobra-tribute-mixtape-onemanonemixonelove-series
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Calvin George Scott,
3 September 1959,
Rocky Point,
Clarendon, Jamaica,
West Indies.
Cocoa Tea began his career while still a child in
Kingston in
1974, singing on a couple of obscure records for an equally obscure producer,
Willie Francis; ‘
Searching In
The Hills’ was issued under the name of Calvin
Scott. He vanished again until
1983, when, sporting dreadlocks and his new nickname (also spelled
Coco Tea), he began to carve a niche in dancehall reggae with producer
Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes, hitting with ‘Rocking
Dolly’, and ‘I
Lost My
Sonia’. Unlike other dancehall singers, he did not find it necessary to attempt to dominate a song with energy, instead preferring a subtler, more melodic approach. His
1984 album debut, Weh Dem A
Go Do... Can’t Stop Coco Tea, suggested a great future, which proved to be correct as the late 80s albums
Sweet Sweet Coco Tea, Cocoa Tea, The
Marshall, and
Come Again, established him further.
A collaboration with producer
Gussie Clarke led to the formation of a group alongside the trio
Home T and
Shabba Ranks. Their
Holding On and the single ‘
Pirate’s
Anthem’ were huge
Jamaican hits in
1989. As a solo artist,
Riker’s Island (
1991) established that Cocoa Tea had more to say than most. The ‘No
Blood For Oil’ single was a lucid comment on the Gulf War, and was also to be found on the same year’s
Another One For
The Road, recorded with Home T after
Cutty Ranks had replaced
Shabba in the group. During the mid-90s Cocoa Tea recorded for a number of different producers, including Cutty Ranks,
Digital B, and
Philip ‘Fatis’ Burrell. In
1997 he successfully revived the
King Sporty hit, ‘I’m Not A
King’.
The following year he established the
Roaring Lion label and released his first major label album,
Holy Mount Zion (on
Motown Records).
By the 00s Cocoa Tea was firmly established as one of
Jamaica’s finest voices, continuing to record for a broad range of the island’s producers and labels. The only thing currently preventing him from becoming a major musical star is his apparent reluctance to travel.
Source:
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by
Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.
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