Whether the "scratch" perry died

On August 29, at the age of 85, one of the founders of reggae and dub-music, the Yamaisky musician and producer Lee Skratech Perry died.

It is reported by Rolling Stone .

Lee Skretch Perry (Rainford Hugh Perry) was born in 1936 in a poor family in the west of Jamaica, left school at the age of 15, sold records in a music store, moved to the capital of Yamaika, the city of Kingston and began to work at Studio One recording studio, where he produced notes of local groups.

In 1963 he recorded his first song, "Old For New" . The single “Chicken Scratch” (1965), to which Perry owes his pseudonym, was a real hit. In 1968, on the Amalgamated Records label, his first songs in the style of reggae, including “The Upsetter” and “People Funny Boy” came out.

In 1973, Perry founded a studio in Kingston and Black Ark label, on which he recorded his own compositions and produced reggae stars - Bob Marley and The Wailers , Junior Bails, Junior Marvin, The Heptones, The Congos and Max Romeo. At his studio, Perry experimented a lot and freely-he repeatedly overwriting the tracks, imposing new rhythms and sounds, used records of street noise and police sirens, fragments of soundtracks from spaghetti westers, Hollywood horror films and Hong Kong militants. In combination with a deep, reverifying bass and ethereal solo on winds, this sound for decades determined the technique of sampling music in a variety of genres.

After the studio in 1978 burned out the Black Ark studio, Perry left Jamaica, lived in the UK and the USA, settled in Switzerland in 1988. He gave concerts and produced the notes of other musicians, since the late 1980s he collaborated with British producers Adrian Sherwood and Nile Freyser. Among the artists with whom he performed and recorded were also Beastie Boys, Andrew WK, Ari Up, The Clash, The Orb and Boris Grebenshchikov-Perry worked on Yamaika to recording the recording collections of the Aquarium group.

During his career, the Scratch Perry took part in the records of dozens of albums and compilations, in 2003 the musician received the Grammy Award in the “Best Reggae album” for the Jamaican et record, in 2004 the Rolling Stone magazine included it in his list of 100 greatest artists of all time.