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- Wilburn "Squidly" Cole is a world renowned reggae musician hailing from the Trenchtown section of Kingston, Jamaica. In 1980, Squidly made his debut in the reggae music business at the young age of 13 when he played his first hit song 'Black Black Roses' with Barrington Levy for Channel One Studio. By age 14, Earl "Chinna" Smith arranged an audition between Squidly and famed reggae Artist, Jimmy Cliff, resulting in a world tour with Jimmy Cliff and the Oneness band to Europe and Africa.
Squidly credits his mother, Pauline Shaw and father, StrangeJah Cole for helping to shape his musical career at such an early age. Musical talent runs deep in Squidly's family. His father, StrangeJah Cole is a living legend from the Ska and Rocksteady Era of the 1960/70s, who is credited with writing the first reggae song, 'Bangarang' as well as several other greatest hits including: "When you call my name', "'Ruff & Tuff'', and "Give Me The Right"'. Squidly's uncle is none other than Donald "Tabby Diamond" Shaw, lead singer of the super harmony trio, The Mighty Diamonds. Their classic hits, "Pass the Coche", "I Need A Roof" and "When The Right Time Come" continue to be Jamaica's dancehall anthems.
Squidly has had a successful career as a singer, songwriter, producer, and drummer. For many years, Squidly has been well known for his musical association with the Marley family. In 1987 he recorded on Ziggy Marley's Conscious Party, which reached platinum sales while also winning a Grammy that year for Best reggae recording. Squidly also recorded on the successful follow up album, One Bright Day, a gold album. After touring for several years with Dub Poet Mutubaruku, Squidly joined Ziggy's backing band, The Grammy award winning Melody Makers consisting of several of reggae's most talented musicians: Sticky Thompson, Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Christopher Meredith, and the Ethiopian reggae band Dallol. Over a ten year period of recording and touring with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Squidly also played and produced on numerous collector items, including many Grammy winning albums. In 1992, Squidly proved his early producing skills on Damian Marley's first hit track 'Me Name Jr. Gong" on Damian's debut album Mr. Marley. "Me name Jr. Gong" was a smash hit, selling more than 100,000 copies in Hawaii alone. Squidly also recorded "Arm your Soul" on Julian Marley's album , Lion in the Morning in 1996.
An another important milestone in Squidly's producing credits came in 1998 when at the request of Stephen Marley, he co-produced with Christopher Meredith on Lauryn Hill and Rebel Music's remixed duet with Bob Marley on "Turn Your Lights Down Low" for Chant Down Babylon, an album in which famous Marley songs were remixed with contemporary artists. The album achieved platinum sales and the track, "Turn Your Lights Down Low", was released as the most successful single and music video on that album. Squidly then went on to record on Lauryn Hill's solo debut, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill , "When it Hurts so Bad", a favorite hit off the Grammy award winning album.
Throughout his extensive career, Squidly has continued to collaborate with many of the finest musicians from Jamaica and abroad. A partial list of highlights encompasses numerous artist collaborations on many world tours and chart-topping and Grammy Award nominated albums
4 week US tour with Mykal "Grammy" Rose, former lead singer of Black Uhuru with the historic three piece band, Government that also included Christopher Meredith on Bass, and Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul on piano synths and vocoder. The band received favorable press from the LA Times
Studio productions with 3-time Grammy Awad winning producer/engineer, Commissioner Gordon Williams and NYC Musician Union to join forces between Jamaican Music Producers and New York Producers
''What is it about men" for Amy Winehouse's first Album, Frank
"Less is more" for Joss Stone's album Mind, Body & Soul
Co-produced with Johnny Dread for Dread's debut album Scarecrow
Trina Broussard's Motown release featuring NAS
Fugees Bootleg Versions
"Bonanza" with Mykal Rose
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley 's Album Halfway Tree, winning Grammy for best reggae album in 2002
Jimmy Cliff We are all one: The Best of Jimmy Cliff
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's album Welcome to Jamrock, winning Grammy for best reggae album in 2006
Co-Produced and arranged the Joseph Israel debut Album, Gone are the Days featuring Mikey General and Luciano
The Itals
"Who Colt The Game" on Rita Marley sings Bob Marley and Friends
"My Father Seh" with Gyptian
"Mama and Pappa" with Capleton
"Got it Right Here" and "Bless Up" with Sizzla
"Baby your all that I want" with D'aville
"Naw stop try mi hafi win" with Chuck Fenda
"Bangarang", a remix of Stranger Cole's original classic hit with Freddie McGregor, produced by Bobby Digital
"We no want no trouble", Etana's first single
World Tour with Richie Spice and the Fifth Element Band
Touring with Sizzla in the UK and US with the Fire House Band
Jamelody's debut album with Bobby Digital
Stephen Marley's Grammy winning album Mind Control
"Hustler" with Ky-mani Marley on his critically acclaimed album Radio
In addition to Squidly's numerous musical credits, he was cast in 1985 with his first movie roll in the Warner Brother's film Club Paradise, filmed in Port Antonio, Jamaica starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. Other film credits include The Mighty Quinn also filmed in Port Antonio, Jamaica starringDenzel Washington and Mimi Rogers.
Most recently, Squidly has been performing with Stephen Marley and has just wrapped up an extensive 2007 US tour in support of Stephen's solo debut and Grammy winning album, Mind Control. In 2005, Squidly established his own recording studio, 100 Studio. 100 Studio features the best blend of roots reggae culture and dancehall music from both seasoned musicians and the best of Jamaica's up and coming talent. 100 Studio has access to many of the most talented reggae veterans from Jamaica, including: Squidly Cole, Bongo Herman, Dia Ferran, Christopher Meredith, AxeMan, Beezy Coleman, Lamar Brown (aka Riff Raff) Carol "Bowie" McClaughlin, Dean Fraser, Andrew Mr. Bassman, Andrew Manning, Sticky Thompson, Obeah, Phanso, Dalton Browne, Fire House Crew, Everroll Wray, Andrew Manninig, Freddy Fatstring, and Sidney Millls.
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Squidly's father Wilburn Theodore Cole, more commonly known as StrangeJah Cole is a living legend from the Ska and Rocksteady Era of the 1960/70s. StrangeJah is credited with the first reggae song, 'Bangarang' as well as several other greatest hits including: "When you call my name', "'Ruff & Tuff'', and "Give Me The Right"'.
Check out this classic footage of StrangeJah Cole perfoming the smash hit "Ruff & Tuff" live at Club Sombrero in 1962!
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Check out this classic footage of StrangeJah Cole perfoming the smash hit "Ruff & Tuff" live at Club Sombrero in 1962!
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