Dennis Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dennis Brown
Occupation	Reggae Singer
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1957(1957-02-01)
Age	67
Date Of Death	1999-07-01
Birthplace	Kingston
Country	Jamaica
Birth City	Kingston Parish
Horoscope	Aquarius

Dennis Brown Biography

Dennis Brown is one of the most popular and richest Reggae Singer who was born on February 1, 1957 in Kingston, Kingston Parish, Jamaica. Jamaican musician who recorded more than 75 albums and became famous internationally as a pioneer of the sub-genre of reggae that includes lovers rock.

He was the preferred performer of fellow reggae star He was the favorite singer of fellow reggae sensation Bob Marley..

Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him “The Crown Prince of Reggae”, and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.

As a young singer Brown was influenced by older contemporaries such as Delroy Wilson (whom he later cited as the single greatest influence on his style of singing), Errol Dunkley, John Holt, Ken Boothe, and Bob Andy. Brown’s first recording was an original song called “Lips of Wine” for producer Derrick Harriott, but when this was not released, he recorded for Clement “Coxsone” Dodd’s Studio One label, and his first session yielded the single “No Man is an Island”, recorded when Brown was aged twelve and released in late 1969. The single received steadily increasing airplay for almost a year before becoming a huge hit throughout Jamaica. Brown recorded up to a dozen sessions for Dodd, amounting to around thirty songs, and also worked as a backing singer on sessions by other artists, including providing harmonies along with Horace Andy and Larry Marshall on Alton Ellis’s Sunday Coming album. Brown was advised by fellow Studio One artist Ellis to learn guitar to help with his songwriting, and after convincing Dodd to buy him an instrument, was taught the basics by Ellis. These Studio One recordings were collected on two albums, No Man is an Island and If I Follow my Heart (the title track penned by Alton Ellis), although Brown had left Studio One before either was released. He went on to record for several producers including Lloyd Daley (“Baby Don’t Do It” and “Things in Life”), Prince Buster (“One Day Soon” and “If I Had the World”), and Phil Pratt (“Black Magic Woman”, “Let Love In”, and “What About the Half”), before returning to work with Derrick Harriott, recording a string of popular singles including “Silhouettes”, “Concentration”, “He Can’t Spell”, and “Musical Heatwave”, with the pick of these tracks collected on the Super Reggae and Soul Hits album in 1973. Brown also recorded for Vincent “Randy” Chin (“Cheater”), Dennis Alcapone (“I Was Lonely”), and Herman Chin Loy (“It’s Too Late” and “Song My Mother Used to Sing”) among others, with Brown still at school at this stage of his career.

He had thirteen children . He was married to a woman whose name was Yvonne.

Dennis Brown Net Worth

Dennis Brown is one of the richest Reggae Singer from Jamaica. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dennis Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began his recording career at just eleven. The first album he released, No Man is an Island was released at the age of thirteen years old.

He passed away in his early 40s from collapsed lung and cardiac arrest. The cause of his death was probably due to the addiction to crack cocaine.

Dennis Brown was born on 1 February 1957 at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. His father Arthur was a scriptwriter, actor, and journalist, and he grew up in a large tenement yard between North Street and King Street in Kingston with his parents, three elder brothers and a sister, although his mother died in the 1960s. He began his singing career at the age of nine, while still at junior school, with an end-of-term concert the first time he performed in public, although he had been keen on music from an even earlier age, and as a youngster was a keen fan of American balladeers such as Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. He cited Nat King Cole as one of his greatest early influences. He regularly hung around JJ’s record store on Orange Street in the rocksteady era and his relatives and neighbours would often throw Brown pennies to hear him sing in their yard. Brown’s first professional appearance came at the age of eleven, when he visited “Tit for Tat” a local West Kingston Nightclub where his brother Basil was performing a comedy routine, and where he made a guest appearance with the club’s resident group, the Fabulous Falcons (a group that included Cynthia Richards, David “Scotty” Scott, and Noel Brown). On the strength of this performance he was asked to join the group as a featured vocalist. When the group performed at a JLP conference at the National Arena, Brown sang two songs – Desmond Dekker’s “Unity” and Johnnie Taylor’s “Ain’t That Loving You” – and after the audience showered the stage with money, he was able to buy his first suit with the proceeds. Bandleader Byron Lee performed on the same bill, and was sufficiently impressed with Brown to book him to perform on package shows featuring visiting US artists, where he was billed as the “Boy Wonder”.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Dennis Brown Dating?

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With continuing commercial success, Brown signed an international deal with A&M Records in 1981, and now based permanently in the UK, his first album release for the label was the Gibbs-produced Foul Play, which while not wholly a success included the roots tracks “The Existence of Jah” and “The World is Troubled”. This was followed in 1982 by Love Has Found its Way, a Gibbs/Brown/Willie Lindo production that blended lovers rock with a more pop sound, and again was not a great success. His final album with the label, 1983’s The Prophet Rides Again, again mixed roots themes with commercial R&B style tracks, and proved to be his swansong with the label. While his association with A&M had taken him in a more commercial pop direction, Kingston’s music scene had shifted towards the new dancehall era, and Brown enthusiastically adapted to the new sound, recording for some of the genre’s major producers including Prince Jammy and Gussie Clarke. In the early 1980s he also started a new label, Yvonne’s Special, dedicated to his wife. In 1984, he collaborated with Gregory Isaacs on the album Two Bad Superstars Meet and the hit single “Let aaf Sum’n”, recorded with Sly & Robbie and Jammy, which was followed by a second album featuring the two stars, Judge Not, in 1985. Brown released a huge amount of work through the 1980s, including the 1986 Jammy-produced album The Exit, but his biggest success of the decade came in 1989 with the Gussie Clarke-produced duet with Isaacs “Big All Round”, and the album Unchallenged. He continued to record prolifically in the 1990s, notably on the Three Against War album in 1995 with Beenie Man and Triston Palma, and on albums produced by Mikey Bennett, and his profile in the United States was raised by a series of album releases on RAS Records. In the late 1990s he was managed by Tommy Cowan, who contrasted Brown to Bob Marley, who he had also managed, stating “Bob Marley was a serious businessman, I don’t think Dennis was as serious when it came to investment. Dennis was like a community person, he would earn money and in one hour he would give it away.” Brown said of his approach to songwriting in the late 1990s:

Facts & Trivia

Dennis Ranked on the list of most popular Reggae Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Jamaica. Dennis Brown celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year.

In the late 1990s, Brown’s health began to deteriorate. He had developed respiratory issues, probably exacerbated by longstanding problems with drug addiction, namely cocaine, leading to him being taken ill in May 1999 after touring in Brazil with other reggae singers, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. After returning to Kingston, Jamaica, on the evening of 30 June 1999, he was rushed to Kingston’s University Hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest. Brown died the next day, the official cause of his death was a collapsed lung. Sitting Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson and former prime minister, serving at the time as opposition leader, Edward Seaga of the Jamaica Labour Party both spoke at Brown’s funeral, which was held on 17 July 1999 in Kingston. The service, which lasted for three hours, also featured live performances by Maxi Priest, Shaggy, and three of Brown’s sons. Brown was then buried at Kingston’s National Heroes Park. Brown was survived by his wife Yvonne and ten children. Prime Minister Patterson paid tribute to Brown, saying: “Over the years, Dennis Brown has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most talented musicians of our time. The Crown Prince of Reggae as he was commonly called. He has left us with a vast repertoire of songs which will continue to satisfy the hearts and minds of us all for generations to come.”

Top Facts about Dennis Brown

1. Dennis Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1957.
2. He recorded over 75 albums during his career.
3. Brown had more than 100 number one hits in Jamaica.
4. His nickname was the “Crown Prince of Reggae.”
5. Brown began recording music at age 11.
6. He collaborated with Bob Marley and other reggae legends.
7. Brown died at age 42 from respiratory failure.
8. He received Jamaica’s Order of Distinction award in 2011.
9. His song “Money In My Pocket” became an international hit.
10. Brown’s music continues to influence reggae artists today.

How many children Dennis Brown have?

His 1995 album, “Light my Fire,″ earned a Grammy nomination. He is survived by his wife, Yvonne, and 13 children.

Who is Dennis Brown wife?

Yvonne Brown

Is Gregory Isaacs still alive?

October 25, 2010

Where did Dennis Brown grow up?

Born Dennis Emmanuel Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1957, his childhood home virtually destined him to a future in the music industry. He grew up on Orange Street , the heart of the island’s music scene, with most of the major recording studios a mere stone’s throw away.

Where is Dennis Brown buried?

National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica