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Michael Rose

Also known as Mykal Rose or Mykal Roze. [b]Please do not confuse with saxophone player [a=Michael "Bami" Rose][/b]. Michael Rose (born 11 July 1957), is a Grammy award winning reggae singer from Jamaica. Possessing a wide-ranged voice, initially modeled on [a=Dennis Brown]'s style, Rose would regularly meet up in Kingston in the '70s with singers, musicians, writers and producers such as [a218007] with whom he cut his first successful songs. He was leadsinger of the group [a=Black Uhuru] from 1977 to 1984, winning the first Reggae Grammy, before resuming his solo career. He was the first to gain success with the so-called Fire-House style of singing (named after the Water House area in Kingston Jamaica where he resided).