Smiley Culture

Quick Facts

Full Name	Smiley Culture
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1963(1963-02-10)
Age	61
Birthplace	South London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	London
Horoscope	Aquarius

Smiley Culture Biography

Smiley Culture is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on February 10, 1963 in South London, London, United Kingdom. David Victor Emmanuel (10 February 1963 15 March 2011,) was better known as Smiley Culture was a British reggae artist and DJ famous by his “fast chat” style. In a brief time of fame and popularity the singer and DJ released some of the best-rated reggae songs from the 1980s. He died on the 15th of March 2011 aged 48, in an investigation by police at his house. A coroner concluded that the cause of death was suicide.

In 2010 Emmanuel stated to The Guardian that after his musical career, he began making investments in the diamond industry and by the time he was in 2010, he had concessions for diamond mining and gold across several countries, such as Ghana, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya, and the Congo.

On 15 March 2011, Emmanuel died, reportedly from a self-inflicted stab wound, while the police were searching his house on Hillbury Road, Warlingham, Surrey. His death came an hour and a half after officers arrived with a search warrant relating to the import of Class A drugs into the UK. A post-mortem examination revealed that he had died from a single stab wound to the heart. He is survived by his mother, son, daughter, sister and three brothers.

After being arrested in July 2010, he was charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine, and on 28 September he appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court in London. His trial was due to begin on 21 March 2011.

The year 1986 was the time Emmanuel was a guest in movie Absolute Beginners. He was also part of an advertising campaign on television for online accounts from NatWest from 1986.

Smiley Culture Net Worth

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

Emmanuel enjoyed record-breaking success on the charts with his subsequent track, “Police Officer”, that was released towards the end of 1984. It was said to be an autobiographical story of the moment that Emmanuel was detained for possession of cannabis. He was then released in exchange for an autograph after the police officer recognized his name as a well-known reggae singer. Despite the issue – and possibly because radio station managers in the mid- 1980s in the UK didn’t understand the concepts of “ganja” and “sinsemilla” The single became successful. It was a Top 20 hit, selling 160,000 copies and earning Emmanuel the privilege of appearing on the BBC’s famous music program, Top of the Pops. The song, though funny had a serious aspect in that it was a reflection of the way that black people are unfairly treated by police. The recording was made with Janice Lang’s BBC Radio 1 show in December 1984. He was included on the pages of Echoes, Record Mirror, as well as the NME in the early part of 1985. The popularity in the release of “Police Officer” prompted a release reissue in the form of “Cockney Translation”. It received a lot of radio play at BBC Radio One and sold more than 40,000 copies however it only made it to the lower reaches of the UK Singles Chart. The success of the album led to an appearance in the Reggae Sunsplash festival in Jamaica in 1985.

He was signed to the Reggae label based in London, Fashion Records, his first single “Cockney Translation” (1984) was a guide for Jamaicans to London’s East End dialect: “Cockneys have names like Terry, Arfur and Del Boy/We have names like Winston, Lloyd and Leroy”. The track merged the cockney dialect and London’s version of Jamaican patois, a dialect that translates from one to the other. Simon Reynolds has often cited the track in the course of his work saying that it was the precursor to the creation of a brand new hybrid accent where the white people of East London adopted a number of words of black heritage. The song’s lyrics were later employed in school to illustrate how immigration has changed our English language. Smiley Culture popularised the “fast chat” style of deejaying, which had its roots with Jamaican DJs like Ranking Joe, and was further developed through British toasters, specifically those who were on the Saxon sound system, such as Peter King.

However, Smiley’s family raised concerns about the investigation, claiming that the IPCC “had let [them] down” and that many “unanswered questions” remained. The conditions surrounding his death and the subsequent investigation were also questioned by members of the general public, his death often being considered in the context of police brutality and other black people dying in police custody. A study into the causes and consequences of the 2011 United Kingdom riots, led by the London School of Economics in collaboration with the British newspaper The Guardian, identified Emmanuel’s death, perceived by some as a prominent case of police abuse, as a contributing factor to the riots.

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Facts & Trivia

Smiley Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Smiley Culture celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.

What really happened to Smiley Culture?

Reggae star Smiley Culture took his own life by stabbing himself in the chest during a police raid at his home , an inquest jury has decided. The 48 -year-old singer, real name David Emmanuel, died at the property in Warlingham, Surrey, in March 2011 during a search by Met Police officers.

Is Smiley Culture dead?

March 15, 2011

How old is Smiley Culture?

48 years (1963–2011)

Is Smiley a UK rapper?

Born David Emmanuel in south London to a Jamaican father and a Guyanese mother, reggae star Smiley Culture has been hailed as an “icon of British reggae rap”. His nickname came from his way of chatting up girls by asking them to smile.

What happened Alfie Meadows?

Alfie Meadows, then a philosophy student at Middlesex University, suffered a brain injury after he was struck in the head with a police baton during the protests nine years ago against the tripling of university tuition fees.