''Iron Storm'' is a studio album by Jamaican
reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...
band
Black Uhuru
Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru ( Swahili for 'freedom'). The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Derrick "Duckie" Simpson as the mainstay. They had their most successful per ...
. It was released in 1991 through Mesa Recordings. The album peaked at number 1 on the US ''
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World Albums
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chart and was nominated for
Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at
34th Annual Grammy Awards
The 34th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1992, recognizing accomplishments by musicians from the previous year (1991). Natalie Cole won the most awards (three), including Album of the Year. Paul Simon opened the show.
Performers ...
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Track listing
Personnel
*
Derrick Simpson – lead vocals, composer, producer
* Ived "Sen-C" Campbell – backing vocals
*
Tracy Lauren Marrow – guest rap vocals
(tracks: 1, 6)
* Leebert "Gibby" Morrison – rhythm guitar
* Steven "Cat" Coore – guitar
* Christopher Meridith – bass
* Derrick Sagittarius Barnet – bass
* Earl "Bagga" Walker – bass
* Anthony Brissett – keyboards, piano
* Noel Davis – keyboards, piano
*
David Madden – horns
*
Dean Fraser
Dean Ivanhoe Fraser (sometimes appearing as Dean Frazer) (born 4 August 1957) Allmusic.com biography by Sandra Brennan/ref> is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Mu ...
– horns
* Egbert Evans – horns
* Marcus "Rangatan" Smith – drums
*
Lowell Fillmore Dunbar – drums
* Christopher "Sky Juice" Blake – percussion
*
Don Carlos
''Don Carlos'' is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play '' Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Friedri ...
– producer
* Donny Nguyen – producer
*
Garth Dennis
Rudolph "Garth" Dennis (2 December 1949 – 9 December 2021) was a Jamaican musician who was a founder member of Black Uhuru, later a member of The Wailing Souls for ten years before returning to Black Uhuru in the mid-1980s, and also recorded ...
– producer
* Michael Angelo Saulsberry – producer
* George Nauful – executive producer
* Jim Snowden – executive producer
* Claire McNally – production assistant
* Jim York – production assistant
* Steve Sykes – mixing
* David Rowe – engineering
* Lynford "Fatta" Marshall – engineering
* Rohan Richards – engineering
* Rudi Ekstein – engineering
* Mark Johnson – assistant engineering
* Howard Alston – coordinator
* Kathleen Covert – art direction & design
* Nancy Nimoy – artwork
* Johnny Black – photography
Charts
References
External links
1991 albums
Black Uhuru albums
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