Alton Ellis (born Alton Neamiah Ellis, 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica, died October 10 2008) was a musician best known as one of the innovators of
rocksteady music.In 2006, he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame. Ellis started his career in 1959 as part of the duo
Alton & Eddie with
Eddie Perkins. Ellis and Perkins recorded for Coxsone Dodd at
Studio One before Perkins moved to the United States.
Duke Reid took Ellis to his Treasure Isle label in 1962. By the mid
1960s,
ska was moving on and the beat was slowing down and becoming associated …
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