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Alton Ellis OD (born Alton Neamiah Ellis, 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a
musician best known as one of the innovators of rocksteady music.[LINK:
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allmusic.com entry for Alton Ellis[LINK:
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Zona Reggae review of "Many Moods of Alton Ellis"[LINK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/roots/2004/01/altonellis.shtml] BBC Tyne article
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 mi
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