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Someone I know who saw him in his prime said seeing Dekker sing was a lot like watching Muhammad Ali fight or Pele play soccer.

A pioneer of rocksteady, the slow and soulful version of ska that was a precursor to reggae, Dekker's honeyed falsetto remained popular and he was performing until his death in 2006. His experiences were reflected in his songs and he became the first Jamaican musician to have a worldwide hit single and British number one. The singer and songwriter, whose 1969 hit 'Israelites' paved the way for reggae and the success of Bob Marley, had moved to Britain in the 1970s, having witnessed the violent street culture of Jamaican cities during his childhood. Dekker, who had electrified the music world with his iconic single '007' for Leslie Kong's Beverly label in 1966, signed a deal with the indie punk label Stiff Records. Others like Desmond Dekker, suddenly found they were back in fashion as the 2-Tone movement gave new energy and interest from a whole new audience. Some like Rico Rodrigues and Saxa of The Beat joined and performed with the bands themselves. We heard about different experiences from Cindy Lee, the drag-chanson project of Patrick Flegel a series of music/performance art hybrids from Natalie Sharp aka Lone Taxidermist anonymous Swedish collective Goat and Jerusalem In My Heart, a film and music happening by Radwan Gazi Moumneh and Erin Weisgerber, which attempts to project Arabic musical references for reception into a western context.One of the benefits of 2-Tone was the attention it drew to the founders and originators of ska, reggae and rocksteady.

In the first part of episode 2, called 'What's Behind The Mask?', we spoke to four musicians about how identity and persona play a role in their work, whether through legit alter-ego’s or just digging into the self as a raw material. In the second episode of ‘The Big Playback’, host Margaret Munchheimer talks to four different musicians about the shifting relationship between Art and Identity and who in some way explore the self as a medium, through persona and performance. Le Guess Who? presents ‘The Big Playback’, a conversational, in-depth podcast about all things music. Podcast: listen to Part 2 of the episode 'What's Behind The Mask?'

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