Horace Andy

Born Horace Hinds in Kingston, Jamaica, Horace Andy emerges in the late 1960s and makes his mark at the beginning of the following decade in the orbit of Studio One, where his flexible, instantly identifiable tenor voice traverses reggae roots, late rocksteady, and the early forms of dancehall. After a first recording in 1967, he followed through in the 1970s with tracks that became touchstones of his repertoire, among them Skylarking, Mr. Bassie, Children of Israel, or Money Money, working with producers such as Coxsone Dodd, Phil Pratt, Bunny Lee, Niney, or Prince Jammy. Later settled between the United States and the United Kingdom, Horace Andy developed his singing in leaner productions, often marked by dub, deep basses, and social or spiritual writing. Albums like In the Light (1977), Dance Hall Style (1982), Elementary (1985), and Living in the Flood (1999) punctuate this journey. From 1990, Horace Andy reaches another audience thanks to his ongoing collaboration with Massive Attack, from Blue Lines (1991) to Heligoland (2010), where his reggae phrasing blends into trip-hop, soul, and electronic textures without losing his Jamaican grounding. Horace Andy has since continued to move between reggae, dub, and hybrid scenes, as Midnight Rocker showed in 2022.