Part 1 Dr. Thomas Cowan (PKA), Dr. Norris Weir, Bob Marley, The Jamaicans, Haile Selassie. скачать в хорошем качестве

Part 1 Dr. Thomas Cowan (PKA), Dr. Norris Weir, Bob Marley, The Jamaicans, Haile Selassie.

Thomas Lincoln Cowan was born on April 6th, 1946, in New Market, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, and hails from a strong Christian family. His father, Thomas Cowan Snr., a Methodist preacher, and mother, Alice Cowan nee Reynolds. This union produced nine boys and two girls. ‘Tommy’ as he is affectionately called, in 1955 left St. Elizabeth and joined his Aunt Fan (Francis) on Delacree Road, Kingston. He attended The Half Way Tree Primary School and Walgrove College. During high school, he accepted Christ at Kingston Youth For Christ, located at Coke Methodist Church Hall, downtown Kingston. He recalls meeting some of Jamaica’s leading people of faith, Peter Morgan, Joe McGann, Paulette Bellamy, Lois Gayle, Jean Gopie, David Keane, Gerry Gallimore, Mark Ricketts, and others. In 1964 Tommy joined a vocal harmony group called the ‘Mericoles’ who later became known as ‘The Jamaicans.’ Tommy went on to co-write and recorded several hit songs with the group including the winning Jamaican festival song of 1967 ‘Baba Boom Time’ and ‘Things You Say You Love,‘ with producer Duke Reid on the Treasure Isle label whose sound exemplified the cool and elegant feel of the rocksteady era. They also worked with ‘Sir Coxone’ Clement Dodd who was influential in the development of ska, rocksteady, and reggae on his Studio One label with ‘Chain Gang’ and ‘Jamaica Oh Jamaica’. ‘Take Warning,’ ‘Peace & Love,’ ‘Sing Freedom’, and ‘Feel Di Festival Spirit’ are also some of the group’s big hits. ‘The Jamaicans’ has left an indelible mark in the development of the Jamaican music structure and landscape while other talented groups like Desmond Dekker and The Aces, The Paragons, Blues Busters, Alton Ellis, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, The Wailers, The Maytals, and Ken Boothe, Alton Ellis were also laying their roots. As a young man growing up in Kingston, Tommy spent most of his leisure time at this popular Maxfield Park playground playing football, and cricket and got involved in rap sessions with conscious elder brothers discussing the Black power movement, religion, and the black man’s leadership in society, from the point of view of Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Eldridge Cleaver, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Norman Manley, Alexander Bustamante, and Haile Selassie. This is where he got his first exposure to Rastafarianism and later became a member of this movement. However, as time went by Tommy came to the knowledge that Haile Selassie never claimed divinity but instead was a devout Christian, who followed Christ in an exceptional way and established many churches in Africa and around the world. After a period working for corporate Jamaica with the Issa Group of Companies, Home Electrics, and Leonard DaCordova, after which he went back to his first love working with Jamaica’s musical icon, record producer, and entrepreneur, Byron Lee of Byron Lee, and the Dragonaires to help develop his company Dynamic Sounds, recording and producing songs with the likes of Eric Donaldson with that famous song ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Blue Boot’, Toots and The Maytals, Keith Lyn and Vic Taylor and Adina Edwards. During his time at Dynamic Sounds Tommy was called upon by pioneering Jamaican record producer and founder of Federal Records, Mrs. Gloria Khouri to promote hit makers such as Ken Lazarus, Ernie Smith, and Hortense Ellis. Tommy left Dynamic Sounds in 1976 and formed his own company, Talent Corporation with his first wife, the late Valerie Cowan (nee Chang). Tommy fast-tracked into producing, writing, recording, and working the early years with groups the likes of Inner Circle band led by Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, John Holt, Zap Pow with lead vocalist Beresford Hammond, Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, The Cimarron's, Sharon Forrester, Joy Lindsay, Israel Vibration, Barrington Levy, Mutabaruka, Judy Mowatt, DJ Trinity, giving saxophonist Dean Fraser, singers Junior Tucker, and Adina Edwards their first opportunity in the recording industry. Talent Corporation located at 1c Oxford Road, Kingston (now the home of ATL Motors), became a magnetic field attracting the best talent that the Jamaican music industry had to offer. Tommy seized the opportunity to expose and invest in these promising young acts, by booking, managing, and exposing them through talent shows and concert productions. Most of these acts have become leading names in the reggae music industry. His early concert productions included the club Epiphany Wednesday night series, and the famous ‘One Love Peace Concert’ (recognised among the top ten rock concerts in the world by the BBC). Billed as the ‘Third World Woodstock’, when on April 22, 1978, Bob Marley during his performance joined hands with Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, and leader of the opposition, Edward Seaga to work together for the sake of peace. This event attracted over 30,000 people to Jamaica’s National Stadium. TOMMY’S AWARDS - Are from 1987/2021