Jerry Brown (aka Jerry Estivon, Jerry Sash, Sausghi, Lion and birth name Keith Brown) was born September, 26, 1944 in St. Elizabet Parish, Jamaica. Since there was supposed to be work in Kingston his family moved there. His mother worked at a bar in the country (his father he never met). When his mother had an accident at work and had a hard time working his siblings (five sister and three brothers) and he also had to start to work in order to make ends meet.

As a youth he was in a band called the Cool Shakes consisting of a childhood friend, Norris Weir and a bit later also Martin Williams. Then Tommy Cowan joined the group making them five. The group now also changed their name to the Jamaicans cutting two singles for Duke Reid at Treasure Isle - »Pocket Full of Money« and »Diana«. They would also take first place in the Island's Festival Song Contest in 1967 with the rocksteady classic »Ba Ba Boom« (by this time without Jerry in the group).

Jerry Brown had left the group so he could focus on auto body repair apprenticeship but also he started working on tourist ships. When returning to Trenchtown Jerry's had grown an immense desire to explore the world. At first he thought of moving to the USA but when he understood that he probably would have needed to go to Vietnam first he decided Canada was a better alternative.

Brown moved to Canada in 1968 with two Jamaican friends renting a one-bedroom apartment. This wasn't accepted by the landlady who booted them and they soon had to find both new resident and jobs to themselves. Jerry who had worked in a body shop earlier quickly found work. He soon quit and started at another body shop at Queen and Spadina where he got an official license to co body work. His free time he would often spend at the club W.I.F. (West Indian Federation) down at Brunswick and College. Artists such as the Sheiks, Eddie Spencer, the Cougars, Jo-Jo Bennett, Jackie Mittoo and other Jamaican artists/acts were brought to the club to perform.

Jerry Brown who had met up with percussionist Gene Bongo at local musical events decided to move out of the city core to Eglinton Avenue West together with Gene. Jerry soon found work here and Martino Bros., having steady employment there for years. During this time he also met his wife Joyce.

Since music had been such an important part of his life he also started to delve a bit more into it together with a Jamaican brethren by the name Oswald Creary. Creary had recently acquired some recording equipment and together they started producing primitive rhythms. This was the start of Summer Records.

When Brown started collaborating with Prince Jammy (who was a Canadian resident at the time) it created some friction with Oswald Creary leading to the two splitting up. In 1975 Oswald took the equipment and left to launch his own label - Half Moon. Brown now working with Jammy had to acquire new equipment.

After closing Summer Records in the mid 80's Jerry moved to Brampton, Ontario, in the mid 90's and separated from his wife. He then moved to Jamaica with hopes of continuing his career.