Simpleton (reggae artist)
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Simpleton was a Jamaican reggae
DJ whose claim to fame was the 1992 hit single,"Coca Cola Bottle Shape."
on November 7, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
DJ whose claim to fame was the 1992 hit single,"Coca Cola Bottle Shape."
Biography
Earlier records of this artist bring his name as Dracula and not Simpleton on the label "How you fi say dat".Simpleton released three reggae albums in the mid-1990s. After being virtually idle from the Jamaican music scene, Simpleton died from a heart attackMyocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
on November 7, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
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Discography
- Coca Cola Bottle Shape (1992)
- 1/4 to 12 (1996)
- Drive Man Crazy (1998)