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Boris Gardiner

Boris Gardiner, born January 13, 1946 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and bassist. He began his career performing as a bass guitarist in the Carl Malcolm Band, the Dragonaires, the Aggrovators, and the Crystalites before working as a studio bassist for Lee Perry at Black Ark studio, contributing to albums such as War Ina Babylon (1976) and Heart of the Congos (1977). His solo breakthrough came with the 1969 single "Elizabethan Reggae", which reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart in 1970, despite early pressings misattributing the track to Byron ...