Mikey dread power 99 bio

Power 99 (WUSL Philadelphia) hosts Mikey Dredd and MuthaKnows have announced their departures from The Rise and Grind Morning Show.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Communications from Lynn University in 1996.
15. He was a major innovator in reggae music.
4. He regularly voiced frustration at the lack of support for serious, message-driven music, calling out producers who chased quick profits over substance.

Ever the innovator, Mikey also explored other media.

Although initially suspicious of the strangers, Campbell soon became the best of friends with the band, producing their famous “Bankrobber” single and performing on several songs on their 1980 album Sandinista!. He convinced his JBC bosses to give him his own radio program called Dread at the Controls, where he played almost exclusively reggae. Project, a tribute to the 1980 Clash album Sandinista!, with the song "Silicone on Sapphire".

According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mikey Dread 's net worth $5 Million. He was an engineer, singer, producer and broadcaster.
3. Other notable collaborators included Izzy Stradlin of Guns N’ Roses and Seal, with whom he recorded a version of Lips Like Sugar, featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 film 50 First Dates.

Champion of Culture and Consciousness

is commitment to authentic roots music and cultural upliftment never wavered, even as reggae became increasingly commercialised.

But his impact is enduring.

They co-produced Dread's own work (e.g. Inevitably, JBC's conservative management and Campbell clashed, and he quit in protest in 1978, becoming an engineer at the Treasure Isle studio, where he began an association with producer Carlton Patterson. "Barber Saloon") and that of others.

By the late 1970s he had started his own DATC label, working with artists such as Edi Fitzroy, Sugar Minott, and Earl Sixteen, as well as producing his own work.

Me know where to locate every man, and me know what them a deal with.”- Wax Poetics

Producing a Legacy

The show was a deliberate departure from the pop-heavy Americana that dominated local radio at the time. With jingles recorded at King Tubby’s studio and playful dread talk, his show became a cult phenomenon.

He participated in the Essential Music Festival in 1996 in Brighton, UK.
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“From I did my research from college, me already knew all of them man who saying anything in reggae. His partnership with dub pioneer King Tubby, along with his early support of and work with Scientist, helped shape the sound of late 1970s and early 1980s roots reggae and dub.

His fearless fusion of reggae with other genres made him a natural collaborator.