Latest Release
- 11 JUN 2024
- 1 Song
- Hip Hop Hits of the 90s · 1998
- Skylarking - The Best of Horace Andy · 1996
- Skylarking - The Best of Horace Andy · 1991
- Midnight Rocker · 2022
- Midnight Rocker · 2022
- Midnight Rocker · 2022
- Wicked Dem a Burn · 1975
- Midnight Rocker · 2022
- Say Who · 2013
- Rare Bonus Tracks - EP · 2020
Essential Albums
- Listening to Horace Andy is like witnessing the most bittersweet roots-reggae sermon. This collection of the Kingston-raised singer's best songs showcases the undeniable combination of his ethereal voice and soul-satisfying reggae grooves. At times, the vibe dips into a darker zone, as on a haunting cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" and the foreboding "Riding for a Fall". But salvation arrives through tender moments like the mellifluous "Sea of Love" and the truly romantic "Bless You”.
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- A protean, restlessly creative figure in reggae for a half-century.
- 2019
About Horace Andy
One of the most distinctive singers in reggae, Horace Andy has used his high, keening tenor to capture feelings of mystery and longing. Over his decades-long career, he’s adapted his haunting croon to changing trends in Jamaican music, and in the ’90s he contributed to the rise of UK trip-hop as a frequent collaborator with Bristol group Massive Attack. Andy was born Horace Hinds in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1951. Raised in a sprawling family, he started singing in church and was still a teenager when he signed to Coxsone Dodd’s renowned Studio One label. He took on the surname Andy in part to invite associations with popular singer Bob Andy, but his breakout 1972 album, Skylarking, features his own eerie take on breezy lovers rock. He spent the next decade working with iconic producers like Bunny Lee and Everton Da Silva, and in 1982 he made an early contribution to dancehall with the icy textures and paranoid lyrics of his dubbed-out masterpiece, Dance Hall Style. Andy has stayed busy into the 2020s, working as a touring member of Massive Attack while continuing to release his own solo material (and dub versions thereof).
- HOMETOWN
- Kingston, Jamaica
- BORN
- 19 de febrero de 1951
- GENRE
- Reggae