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A singer who came to
Bob Marley by way of
the Clash and
the Police,
Bobby Kray was discovered in the Brixton, U.K., reggae record store Blackerdreads. It was there that Garfield Hackett and Nnamdi Ogugua, both from the Black Allianz label, came to see the store's famous "skinny white boy" who came down from Notting Hill's Landbroke Grove to entertain customers with his singing over reggae instrumentals and dubs. The label set the vocalist up with U.K. reggae legend
Dennis Bovell to record a single, but the chemistry between the producer nicknamed "
Blackbeard" and
Kray soon meant the duo would be working on an album. The result,
Tales from a White Skinny Boy, was released in 2007 by the V2 label with the
Eek-A-Mouse collaboration "Main Man" as its first single. ~ David Jeffries