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Genre : Reggae
Latest Release : Love Has No Boundaries
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Beres Hammond
Hammond subsequently continued his session work, also forming a harmony quintet called Tuesday's Children that never recorded but had some success as a live act. Following the 1985 album Let's Make a Song, he founded his own label, Harmony House, to ensure that he would have an outlet whenever arrangements with other companies fell through. The first two singles, "Groovy Little Thing" and the Willie Lindo-produced "What One Dance Can Do," were both major hits that nodded to the emerging dancehall style, and the latter not only started to break him in the international market, but proved to be his biggest Jamaican hit ever. A self-titled album also appeared in 1986, and he scored another hit with "Settling Down." In 1987, amid his growing notoriety, Hammond was the victim of an armed break-in and robbery; greatly shaken by the ordeal of having been tied up while thieves ransacked his home, he left Jamaica and spent some time in New York with relatives, away from the spotlight..
Reuniting with Willie Lindo in the Big Apple, Hammond set to work on the ballad-heavy Have a Nice Weekend, and also teamed with emerging crossover star Maxi Priest for the 1988 duet "How Can We Ease the Pain." In the wake of Hurricane Gilbert, Hammond returned to Jamaica and recorded the tougher Putting Up Resistance with producer Tappa Zukie, which was released in 1989 and spawned a significant hit in the title track and a popular follow-up in "Strange." Hammond made his return permanent in 1990, signing with the Penthouse label and teaming that year with producer Donovan Germain for the enormous dancehall hit "Tempting to Touch." Perhaps his best-known song in the U.K. and U.S., "Tempting to Touch" topped the charts in Jamaica and paved the way for 1992's hit A Love Affair album, which included further hits in "Is This a Sign" and "Respect to You Baby."
Now attracting interest from larger labels, Hammond wrote and recorded prolifically in the '90s, and produced fairly consistent results. Sweetness appeared in 1993 on VP, and 1994 brought In Control, a set on American major Elektra that was geared toward the international market. VP distributed his 1996 Harmony House album Love From a Distance, which made him one of the most popular lovers rock artists around, and Heartbeat handled the 1997 follow-up Getting Stronger. 1998 brought A Day in the Life... on VP, after which Hammond took a few years' break from his frantic recording pace. In the meantime, several compilations were released, including Jet Star's Reggae Max and Forever Yours (the former a hits retrospective, the latter focusing on his lovers rock material). Hammond returned to the studio in 2001 for Music Is Life, which featured a guest spot from rapper Wyclef Jean. Love Has No Boundaries was released in 2004 on VP Records, and included guest spots by Buju Banton and Big Youth, among others.
The 1990s were good to Hammond. He recorded a string of successful albums including Full Attention (1993), In Control (1994), Love From a Distance (1996) and A Day In The Life (1998). In addition, he received numerous awards including Best Male Vocalist and Best Song. Beres Hammond shows no signs of slowing down in the new millennium. His 2001 CD, Music is Life, has been extremely successful and includes his number one hit Rock Away. The prolific singer, songwriter, and producer Beres Hammond is sure to give us many more years of great sweet soulful reggae music.
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Artist Biography - Beres Hammond
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 Beres Hammond was born in 1955 in the province of St. Mary in Annotto Bay, Jamaica. As a young boy, Hammond began singing ska and reggae. His early influences included Jamaican singers Alton Ellis and Peter Tosh as well as American R&B singers Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Hammond got his start in the music business in 1972 as a teenager taking first prize in a local talent show. After winning several talent competitions and recording a single, Wanderer, Hammond joined the group Zap Pow in 1975 as lead singer. In 1976, while still with Zap Pow, he released his first solo album entitled Soul Reggae. He followed this up with the single One Step Ahead, which stayed at number one on the Jamaican charts over for 14 weeks. His next number one single, I'm In Love, came in 1978.
By 1979, the pressure of performing and recording with Zap Pow and managing his own career was becoming too much. This led to him leave Zap Pow. He released his next album, Just A Man, in 1980. Hammond continued recording successful albums, and doing extensive session work for much of the '80s. He also formed his own record label, Harmony House, and a new group called Tuesday's Children. The group never recorded but spent many years as one of Jamaica's most successful live acts. In 1985, Hammond switched from his well-known soulful style to a more hardcore reggae sound. His international hit What One Dance Can Do helped make a name for Hammond in the dancehall market.
One of the most underappreciated reggae artists of his time, Beres Hammond was something of a throwback during his '90s heyday: a soulful crooner indebted to classic rock steady and American R&B, one who preferred live instrumentation and wrote much of his own material. Hammond specialized in romantic lovers rock, but he also found time to delve into light dancehall, conscious roots reggae, hip-hop fusion, and straight-up contemporary R&B. He was born Hugh Beresford Hammond on August 28, 1955, in Annotto Bay, in the Jamaican province of St. Mary. Hammond grew up listening to his father's collection of American R&B (Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, etc.) and jazz, and also fell in love with native Jamaican music during the ska and rock steady eras; his primary influence was Alton Ellis, and he also listened to the likes of Peter Tosh, the Heptones, and Ken Boothe.
Over 1972-1973, Hammond performed successfully in talent competitions, one of which led to his first recording, a soul cover of Ellis' "Wanderer." In 1975, Hammond joined the group Zap Pow as lead singer; they enjoyed a hit single in 1978 with "The System." Meanwhile, Hammond was already exploring the idea of a solo career, cutting his debut album, Soul Reggae, with producer Willie Lindo in 1976. Urged by his label, Aquarius, to pick a song for single release, Hammond instead returned to the studio and cut a new track, the ballad "One Step Ahead." It was a massive chart-topping hit in Jamaica, and so was his second single, 1978's Joe Gibbs-produced "I'm in Love." Hammond left Zap Pow in 1979 to concentrate on his solo career, and initially worked as a session singer to make up for the royalties that were failing to come in. He recorded his second solo album, Just a Man, with Gibbs in 1980, and reunited with Lindo for 1981's Comin' at You.
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