{"product_id":"prince-far-i_under-heavy-manners_2025_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Under Heavy Manners","description":"Prince Far I, born Michael James Williams in 1944 or 1945 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and murdered on September 15, 1983, was a Jamaican reggae and dub toaster and producer. His deep, gravelly voice and his way of speaking over the music make him a unique and easily recognizable voice. A convinced Rasta, his lyrics are imbued with values of peace and tolerance. He is also considered one of the founding fathers of dub poetry.Before becoming one of the greatest toasters reggae has ever known, Prince Far I first worked as a security guard at Joe Gibbs' studio and as a bouncer for Coxsone at Studio One, while also being a deejay for the Sir Mike the Musical Dragon Sound System. Then, in the early 1970s, he became involved in Jamaican music under the name King Cry Cry (a name he owed to a tendency to sob when he got angry), influenced by the deejays he encountered in the dancehalls of the Waterhouse district in Kingston, where he now resided.During the second half of the seventies, very few managed to emulate the success of Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson's productions. \"The Mighty Two\" took the greatest musical and technical innovations from Kingston and turned the cutting edge into a commercial proposition that traveled across the rest of the world. \"Under Heavy Manners\" was an essential purchase as well as a defining statement on the dark mood of the era of the year when two sevens clash, and forty years after its original release, the raw reality of \"Under Heavy Manners\" continues to hit home.Fully remastered for this 2nd album released in 1977Under Heavy Manners, produced by the producer-engineer duo Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson, saw his first big hit, Heavy Manners, on the riddim of Naggo Morris, Su Su Pon Rasta, marked by a heavy bass; in this song, he calls on the people to self-discipline and criticizes the anti-crime policy of the PNP, from which the Rastas suffered.","brand":"Prince Far I","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57516547932504,"sku":null,"price":20250808.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/prince-far-i_under-heavy-manners_2025_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}