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Prince Buster: Jamaica's True Voice of the People — rollingstone.com

Lester Sterling, the celebrated saxophonist trained at Kingston's famous Alpha Boys School and member of the legendary Skatalites, didn't realize Jamaican music pioneer Prince Buster was so multitalented when he first met him. None of the big producers in the 1950s and Sixties, after all, were also musicians, singers or performers.  "Everything he was doing at the time was good," Sterling tells Rolling Stone. "He excited the dance world and the crowd! People would start shuffling — doing all kinds of moves, shaking a leg. Because he was doing what people loved." He fondly recalls the recording of 1968's "They Got To Come," noting, "That's when I saw him sing. It came out so good." 

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