Josey Wales, born Joseph Winston Sterling in St. Mary, Jamaica is an influential Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n dancehall

Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...

 deejay

Deejay

A deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and toasts to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddims to play are called selectors...

. He was considered, along with Brigadier Jerry

Brigadier Jerry

Brigadier Jerry is a Jamaican dancehall reggae deejay known for his "cultural" lyrics.-Biography:...

, Yellowman

Yellowman

Yellowman is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, widely known as King Yellowman...

 and sound system partner Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin (singer)

Charlie Chaplin is a Jamaican dancehall and ragga deejay and singer. It was common for Jamaican deejays of the era to name themselves after film stars or characters. Bennett, however, had been nicknamed after the comedian since his youth. His career began in 1980 when he began working with...

, one of the best deejays of the 1980s.
His career began in the late 1970s performing over U-Roy

U-Roy

U-Roy , OD, is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting.-Biography:...

-owned King Sturgav sound system, and he gained even more popularity in the early 1980s performing over Henry "Junjo" Lawes's volcano sound system, and recording singles such as "Bobo Dread" and "Leggo Mi Hand" for Lawes' label of the same name as well as later hits for George Phang's Power House label, most noticeably "Undercover Lover."
Wales is named after the 1976 Western movie character from The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the end of the American Civil War. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood , with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams.The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman...

, played by Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

, and subsequently nicknamed "The Outlaw".

Discography

(incomplete)

• 1983 - Outlaw
• 1984 - No Way No Better Than Yard
• 1984 - Two Giants Clash (split with Yellowman)
• 1986 - Rules
• 1990 - Ganja Pipe
• 1991 - How Yu Mouth Tan So
• 1992 - Special Prayer
• 1994 - Outlaw
• 1994 - Cowboy Style
• 2001 - Rulin

External links

• [ Biography] at Allmusic