Biography

Johnny Ringo was born Bradley John Miller in 1961, Jones Town, Kingston, Jamaica. He first began his career working in Randys record shop. It was while working there he first met Welton Irie who would become a longtime sparring partner. Ringo and Welton where both great admirers of the deejay Ranking Trevor. Ringos musical career started as an operator for the Sound Systems Soul Express Disco and Ripper Tone. He was after some time given the opportunity to deejay for the set and this led to a number of recording sessions. It was with his slack hits »Push Lady Push« and »Two Lesbians« he really hit. In 1982 Johnny Ringo had an international hit with the song »Dub And Lef« which was deejayed over Edi Fitzroy's »First Class Citizen«. His song entitled »Video«, that concerned the entry of the video recorder in Jamaica started a trend of songs that covered the same subject.

He joined the sound systems Lees Unlimited and Gemini. It was with the latter he toured the UK where he recorded the songs »New Yorker« and »Nice And Easy« at the Fashion studios. He was the first JA-contender in the JA to UK Clash series. Asher Senator being the English counterpart.

Johnny Ringo passed away the 2nd July in 2005.

Discography:

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Singles