Leroy Sibbles

Leroy Sibbles (born January 29, 1949) is a reggae musician from Jamaica. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd's Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and the associated Studio One label during the prolific late 1960s. The Heptones Sibbles and Heptones' co-founders Barry Llewellyn and Earl Morgan met in the mid 1960s, around the time Sibbles' first group auditioned for Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studio. Read more on Last.fm

Leroy Sibbles was featured in the movie This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s.

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