Garnet Silk - It's Growing Garnet Silk - Jah Jah Is The Ruler Garnet Silk - Kingly Character Garnet Silk - Lets All Spread The Love Garnet Silk - Lion Heart. Gold is a greatest hits compilation album of Garnett Silk's songs released post-posthumously by Jet Star. Released in 2000, the album contains some of Silk's most. Listen free to Garnett Silk – The Very Best Of Garnet Silk (Hello Africa, Necessity and more). 20 tracks (73:12). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.

Garnett Silk rose out of Jamaica's 1980s dancehall scene, and once he turned from toasting to singing, seemed poised to become an international star when he died in a fire in 1994, a tragedy that robbed the world of an increasingly graceful and elegant artist. Silk worked with an astounding number of producers (on this compilation alone are tracks produced by Danny Browne, Courtney Cole, Peter Chemist, Jack Scorpio, King Jammy, Donovan Germain, Richard Bell, and Bobby Digital), which has led to a lot of left-on-the-cutting-room-floor-type releases since his death, so it's always a delight when a Silk anthology has some internal coherence, which Gold: The Very Best Of does. Essentially it packages the 14 tracks of Gold, which was released in 2000 on the Jet Star imprint Charm, and adds in six additional cuts produced by Bobby Digital, to make an expanded and improved version of the Charm disc. Highlights include the lead track, 'Hello Africa' (sometimes listed as 'Hello Mama Africa'), the striking 'Passing Judgement,' 'Let's All Spread the Love' (which proves Silk could sing modern uptown R&B with the grace of a Marvin Gaye), 'Lion Heart,' 'Watch Over Our Shoulders' (which manages to be paranoid, wise, and hopeful all at the same time), and 'Every Knee Shall Bow.' There's still no definitive anthology of this wonderful singer, one that pulls together everything in a uncluttered chronology, but until then, this set makes an adequate beginning.

~ Steve Leggett.

Garnett Silk Background information Birth name Garnet Damion Smith Born 2 April 1966 Origin, Jamaica Died 9 December 1994 ( 1994-12-09) (aged 28) Genres, Years active late 1970s–1994 Labels,,, Associated acts Jahpostles Garnett Silk (born Garnet Damion Smith; 2 April 1966 – 9 December 1994), was a Jamaican musician and, known for his diverse, emotive, powerful and smooth voice. During the early 1990s he was hailed as a rising talent, however his career was ended by his early death in 1994, while attempting to save his mother from her burning house. Contents • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Little Bimbo [ ] Smith was born in. His musical career began at the age of twelve, when he performed under the name Little Bimbo. During the 1980s he worked as a on such as Conquering Lion, Soul Remembrance, Pepper's Disco, Stereophonic, and Destiny Outernational (where he first met ).

He recorded his first track in 1985, but it would be two years later before his first single, 'Problem Everywhere' was released. An album of material from this period ( Journey) was later released. In 1988, he joined 's Youth Promotion label, releasing 'No Disrespect', and working regularly with Tony Rebel, Smith now being billed simply as 'Bimbo'. The pair began performing as a duo around the sound systems to much acclaim. The Garnett Silk Meets the Conquering Lion: A Dub Plate Selection album dates from about this time and features a clutch of exclusive recordings the DJ cut for the sound system from the mid-1980s through the end of the decade. Rebel, a, eventually converted Smith to his religion with the help of, a close friend of both the DJs. Singing career [ ] In 1989, at the suggestion of veteran singer, Smith turned from deejaying to singing, with a recording session at 's studio with Rebel, including tracks recorded separately, as a duo, and with Anthony Selassie, and he began working under his real name. Counter Strike Android Game.

The label's compiles these early Morgan-overseen recordings. The success of this session led him to continue as a singer, going on to work with producers,, and, before signing a two-year contract with in 1990, recording an album's worth of songs for them. It was the production duo who decided to change his name to Garnet Silk, in reference to his smooth voice.