Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren’t many artists in the ...

But since Mikey was the engineer rather than a radio personality, he wasn’t allowed to speak on air, and relied instead on custom jingles, sound effects, the pre-recorded ‘dread talk’ of Rastafari ...

He’s rarely mentioned in the same breath as pioneers like Lee Perry, Prince Buster and Coxsone Dodd, but Michael Campbell, a.k.a. Mikey Dread, is a critical figure in the evolution of reggae music.