"I love the development of our music, that's what I
really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried
to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day
people come forward with new songs. Music goes on
forever."
Owen Gray, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1939, was a child prodigy and one of the top-ranked singers in Reggae's early days. In 1959, Coxsone Dodd produced Gray's hit "On The Beach", one of the first songs lauding the sound system. Hit after hit followed like "Please Don't Let Me Go", "Runnin Round", "Jezebel", "Patricia", and Mash It". In 1960, Chris Blackwell (Island Records) began his new label by signing Owen Gray. Gray was indeed one of the leading artist lights throughout this exhilarating decade in Reggae's history.