Latest Release
- 4 MAR 2024
- 1 Song
- House of Joy · 1971
- Say You · 1972
- Green Grow the Rashes O! - Single · 2024
- Patrice Presents Rocksteady Christmas II · 2023
- Patrice Presents Rocksteady Christmas II · 2023
- Duke's Cookies, Vol. 3 · 2023
- Just Want to Say - Single · 2023
- Put Food Pon De Ghetto Youths Table · 2022
- I Feel Like Daniel (I Feel Like Daniel 2) - Single · 2022
- Rise Jamaica: Jamaican Independence Special · 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2017
- 2013
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- One of Jamaica's smoothest, most soulful singers.
Live Albums
Appears On
- Soul Revivers
- Soul Revivers
- THE TOKYO BLUE MOUNTAINS
About Ken Boothe
A huge influence on Jamaican music, Ken Boothe's work predates reggae, reaching back to the formative days of ska, when he had a successful early-1960s duo with Stranger Cole. Like most other Jamaican singers of his era, Boothe moved through the brief rocksteady period and finally into reggae. Heavily influenced by American R&B (and often called "the Wilson Pickett of Jamaica"), Boothe developed an organic, soulful style that became an important influence on "lovers' rockers" like Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs. Like John Holt, Boothe had as much success with reggae versions of US pop tunes as with straight reggae material, providing a model for UK pop-reggae crossovers such as UB40 and Culture Club.
- HOMETOWN
- Denham Town, Kingston, Jamaica
- BORN
- 22 March 1948
- GENRE
- Reggae