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ANDY, Bob

(b Keith Anderson) Jamaican singer, songwriter whose exquisitely crafted Songbook album for Studio One, compiling sides made for that label in the mid-'60s, is considered to be among the finest works in the island's brief history of recording. After a short stint with rock steady vocal group the Paragons, he went solo mid-'60s and almost immediately made his mark with the diasporic 'I've Got To Go Back Home', with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer on harmony vocals. Other hits incl. 'Let Them Say', "Experience', 'Going Home', 'Born A Man'. He teamed '70 with former Studio One labelmate Marcia Griffiths for duet on Nina Simone's 'Young Gifted And Black' for Harry J, an international hit. Duet LP of that name was soon followed by the duo's Pied Piper; after one of his periodic bouts of inactivity came solo set The Music Inside Me '75, Lots Of Love And I c'77; came back again mid-'80s with tours and new LPs Friends and Retrospective on his own I-Anka label, later CDs Really Together (with Griffiths), Freely and Bob Andy's Dub Rock. Trojan compilation CDs: Fire Burning and Young, Gifted And Black.