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Tyrone Evans (died 2000) was a Jamaican reggae singer and musicians. He was one of the founding members of the rocksteady group
The Paragons The Paragons were a ska and rocksteady vocal group from Kingston, Jamaica, initially active in the 1960s. Their most famous track was " The Tide Is High", written by band member John Holt. Career The Paragons were originally Garth "Tyrone" E ...
, who had a worldwide hit song with "
The Tide Is High "The Tide Is High" is a 1967 rocksteady song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980, when a cover vers ...
". With Bob Andy and Coxsone Dodd, Evans recorded a single, "I Don't Care", and recorded with
Leslie Kong Leslie Kong (20 December 1933 – 9 August 1971) was an influential Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer. Career Leslie and his two older brothers Cecil and Lloyd ran a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop called Beverley's in Orange Stre ...
. By the late 1970s he recorded for Studio One, and again with Dodd released the single "How Sweet It Is". He worked on two more Paragons albums, both unsuccessful, and moved to New York, where he recorded with
Lloyd Barnes Lloyd Barnes (born 1944 in Jamaica),Moskowitz, David V. (2006), ''Caribbean Popular Music'', Greenwood Press, , p. 22. popularly known as Bullwackie, is a reggae music producer and the founder of the independent record label Wackies, which specia ...
on his
Wackies Wackies is an American independent record label specialized in reggae and dub music. Lloyd Barnes founded the label in 1976, and it is possibly the longest-running American recording studio for reggae. History Wackie's is run by Lloyd "Bullw ...
label, and released ''Tyrone Evans Sings Bullwachies Style''. For a while he was back in Jamaica, where in 1983 he recorded with
Winston Riley Winston Riley (14 May 1943 – 19 January 2012) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and record producer. The ''Jamaica Gleaner'' notes he was one of the most successful reggae producers.
. More material recorded with Evans remains unreleased. He died of cancer in New York in 2000.


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