ALBUMUnited State of MindRobin Trower, Maxi Priest & Livingstone Brown
ALBUMIt All Comes Back To LoveMaxi Priest
ALBUMEasy To LoveMaxi Priest
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ALBUMMan With the FunMaxi Priest
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This reggae alchemist mixed riddim with R&B to make pop-chart gold.
About Maxi Priest
Artist Biography
Maxi Priest’s velvety voice helped make him one of the world’s biggest reggae stars in the 1980s and ’90s. Veering away from the politically inclined roots sound of Bob Marley, Priest’s R&B-leaning lovers rock—exemplified by songs like 1990’s Top 10 hit “Close to You”—leveraged reggae’s easygoing syncopation for maximum knee-wobbling effect as he made audiences swoon across the UK, Europe and the United States. Born Max Elliott in 1961 to Jamaican immigrant parents in southeast London, he grew up singing gospel with his family in a Pentecostal church before making his debut in 1981 at live dancehall performances as a member of the famed Saxon Studio International sound system. His commercial breakthrough came in 1988 with a breezy, Sly and Robbie-produced cover of Cat Stevens’ “Wild World” (a single from his third album, Maxi), and over the next decade he increasingly embraced elements of R&B and pop in collaborations with artists like Shaggy and Roberta Flack. He kept busy throughout the 2000s and 2010s, and his bluesy 2020 effort United State of Mind (recorded with Robin Trower and Livingstone Brown) shows Priest’s lovely voice only growing richer with time.
Hometown
Lewisham, London, England
Genre
Reggae
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