Alton Ellis

Alton Ellis


Alton Ellis (1938-2008) was a musician best known as the innovator of rocksteady music. He began recording in the late 1950s and continued until his death in 2008, but he reached his period of greatest popularity in the late 1960s. Ellis was born in Trenchtown, a poor area of Kingston, Jamaica, and learned to play the piano at a young age. In his teens, Alton and Eddie Perkins formed Alton & Eddie, and began recording for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, scoring a hit in 1958 with "Muriel".

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Set a Better Example

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Tumblin Tears

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The Picture Was You

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If I Ruled the World

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Gonna Take a Miracle

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We A Feel It

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Wide Awake in a Dream

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Blessings of Love

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Love on Top

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I'll Be Waiting Live

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I Would Be a Fool

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Ain't No Music

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