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Where does Barrington Levy come from?

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Barrington Levy is a well-known reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica. He will be 59 years old on April 30th, 2023.

Despite the fact that numerous underground and commercially produced jungle tunes copied and utilized Levy’s voice, he continued to release occasional hits in Jamaica and less frequently in the UK in the 1990s.

He performed on the BBC One music program Top of the Pops on June 20, 1991, alongside Tenor Fly and Rebel MC (Congo Natty), whose composition “Here I Come” was sampled and turned into the UK Top 40 hit “Tribal Base.”

Living Dangerously, his 1998 album, featured collaborations with Snoop Dogg and Bounty Killer, two of Jamaica’s most active deejays. Levy finally found success in the US with this album, one of his most lucrative since the early 1990s.

Where does Barrington Levy come from?

Barrington Levy hails from Clarendon, Jamaica, where together with his cousin Everton Dacres, he started a group called the Mighty Multitude. In 1977, the group published “My Black Girl.”