Upon migrating to England from Jamaica in the late 50's with five of those children, Max Elliott known as Maxi Priest was born on June 10th, in Lewisham, London England, along with two brothers and one sister. His father was a steelworker in a factory, while his mother devoted her life to Christianity; she was a missionary at a Pentecostal Church and lead singer for the church choir.
Next we find our hero making himself a living as a carpenter. After being asked to build speaker boxes for a local reggae sound-system, Saxon, he was singing over the mic at their live dancehall sessions with folks like Smiley Culture, and made history in 1984 after he and Paul "Barry Boom" Robinson produced Philip Levi's "Mi God Mi King"; the first UK reggae tune to reach number one in Jamaica.
And that is just the beginning...
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