Over the course of a 30-year career: Beres has poured his smoky-sweet voice—-an instrument of subtlety and power reminiscent of an Otis Redding or a Teddy Pendergrass—-over every kind of riddim track: from the funked-up reggae jams of the ’-70s fusion band Zap Pow to the lush instrumentation of his 1976 album Soul reggae to the spare digital beat of his 1985 dancehall breakthrough “-What One Dance Can Do.”- In 1990: his album A Love Affair for Donovan Germaine’-s Penthouse label raised his popularity to new heights. Cuts like “-Tempted To Touch”- and “-Who Say”- with Buju Banton are still as effective in the dancehall today as they were as pre-releases. The ’-90s proved to be Hammond’-s decade: during which he blazed a trail of modern classics for a variety of producers: from the strugglers’- anthem “-Putting Up Resistance”- (Tappa) to lovers’- laments like “-Come Back Home”- (Star Trail) and “-Double Trouble”- (Steely &- Clevie).
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