Альбомы исполнителя
The Vintage Series: Barry Biggs
2000 · альбом
The Very Best of Barry Biggs
2022 · сборник
What’s Your Sign? Wide Awake
2022 · альбом
Mr Biggs + Sincerely
2022 · альбом
You're Welcome
2022 · сингл
I've Got It Covered
2020 · альбом
Work All Day - Barry Biggs
2018 · альбом
Sons Of Jamaica
2015 · альбом
Barry Biggs In Session
2014 · альбом
Here I Am - Single
2014 · сингл
Your Welcome
2014 · сингл
How Could I Let You Get Away
2014 · сингл
Just My Imagination
2011 · сингл
Lonely Girl
2011 · сингл
Love Come Down
2011 · сингл
Sincerely
2011 · сингл
Three Ring Circus
2011 · сингл
Wide Awake
2011 · сингл
Work All Day
2011 · сингл
Letter to Myself
2011 · сингл
Be My Baby
2011 · сингл
Sideshow
2011 · сингл
Songs About You
2008 · альбом
Reggae Max: Barry Biggs
2007 · альбом
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Биография
Barry Biggs was born in 1946 in St. Andrew, Jamaica. He spent some time as an engineer with the Jamaican Broadcasting Company before entering the music scene as a harmony singer at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studios, and spent time as a member of both the Crystalites and the Astronauts before accepting a position as the lead singer for Byron Lee's Dragonaires. It was at Lee's Dynamic Sounds studio that Biggs recorded his first Jamaican hit, a cover of the Jackson 5's "One Bad Apple," following it up with his first international success, the fine "Work All Day," in 1972. Biggs placed six singles on the U.K. charts between 1976 and 1981, with his biggest hit, "Sideshow," reaching number three in December of 1976. Always comfortable being a "do-over man," Biggs covered songs by such American artists as Stevie Wonder, the Chi-Lites, and the Temptations, giving each a light reggae do-over. His brand of sweet pop reggae, usually featuring high, double-tracked, and heavily echoed lead vocals, was more cosmopolitan than most of his contemporaries, and he avoided the political and Rasta themes then popular in Jamaica, eschewing the standard image of the dreadlocked rebel for the pop style and fine clothes of the club singer. A solid entertainer (he has been called the Barry White of reggae, a label that hardly seems accurate), Biggs is unlike any other singer in reggae's history. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi