Yellowman

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Winston Foster (born 1956), also known as King Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay.

He rose to fame in Jamaica in the 1980s with a string of singles that established his fame.

Personal life

Kareema, Foster's older brother, followed him into a career in music.

He has spoken out against violence. "Now it's not your entertainment or teaching," he wrote in the Montreal Mirror in 2005. If you look at the hip hop and dancehall bands on today, all they do is sing about drugs, clothes, automobile, and house: if they can't get it, they get violent. ... I know what violence looks like and what it does and what it does. "I'm glad that the roots are returning." Yellowman's slackness style with which he is often associated has homophobic words. "Everybody pay attention to me," he wrote in the same Montreal Mirror article. I don't do songs for gay people, and I don't do vehemently against gay people. If you don't like someone or you don't like a particular product, you don't want to talk about it. Since everyone has the right to live, you shouldn't come on stage and say kill them or burn them.

Yellowman was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1982. After multiple surgeries, Yellowman was able to resume his work. During this time, the cancer went into apparent remission. It was discovered that the cancer had spread to his jaw in 1986, and Yellowman underwent invasive jaw surgery to remove a malignant tumor. The tumor removal was permanent in Yellowman's smile, as a significant portion of his lower jaw's left side had to be removed in order to successfully remove the tumor.

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Career

Winston Foster was abandoned by his parents and grew up in the Maxfield Children's Home and the Catholic orphanage Alpha Boys School in Kingston, the former home of the country's musical alumni. He was shunned for having albinism, a characteristic that was not widely recognized in Jamaica. When he finished second to Nadine Sutherland in the 1978 Tastee Talent Competition, the Yellowman first attracted a lot of attention. He honed his skills by regularly appearing in outdoor sound-system dances, most notably with Aces International. He had success as a recording artist, associating with producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes. Yellowman, who is best known in Jamaica, became the first dancehall artist to be signed to a major American label in 1981 (Columbia Records).

Mister Yellowman appeared on 1982, and Zungzungunggu was the third generation to debut in 1983, bringing instant success. Yellowman's sexually explicit lyrics in popular songs such as "Mad Over Me" boasting, like other reggae singers/deejays, that he was chastised in the mid-1980s, triggering Yellowman's condemnation. Yellowman appeared in Jamaican Dancehall Volcano Hi-power 1983, which featured other major dancehall artists, including Massive Dread, Josey Wales, Burro Banton, and Eek-A-Mouse.

"I never know why they call it slackness," a yellow man explained. I discuss sex, but it's really what happens behind closed doors. What I'm talking about is fact."

He had success in 1987 with a version of "Blueberry Hill" that debuted in Jamaica for several weeks. Fats Domino had appeared on the island earlier in the decade, and Domino had given him a copy of his version.

Yellowman began releasing socially conscious music in the mid-1990s, boosting international recognition alongside musicians like Buju Banton. Yellowman became the island's most popular deejay. Yellowman had over 40 singles and released up to five albums a year in the 1980s.

With his 1994 album Prayer, he stepped away from the sluggishness that gave him his first fame. His most recent albums are New York (2003), Round 1 (2005), and No More War (2019). Yellowman was also a featured guest vocalist on the Run-DMC track "Roots Rap Reggae." Yellowman's Sagittarius Band has performed around the world, including Nigeria, Peru, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, Kenya, and Canada. He appeared on OPM's 2004 album, Forthemasses.

The Jamaican government had announced that he would be given the Order of Distinction (Officer Class) in 2018.

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