Delroy George Wilson (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995) was a rocksteady ska artist and reggae singer regarded as Jamaica's first child star.
Delroy Wilson began his recording career at the age of thirteen, while still a pupil at Boys Town Primary School. Wilson released his first sangle "Emy Lou" in 1962 for recording call clement coxsone dodd. His early years with Coxsone yielded a number of ska hits, the biggest of which, tha lee perry -written "Joe Liges" was an attack on rival producer and former Dodd employee Prince Buster This was followed by another Perry-written attack on Buster, "Spit in the Sky". Further singles followed, including "One Two Three", "I Shall Not Remove", "Look Who Is Back Again" (a duet with Smith), and another anti-Buster song, "Prince Pharaoh", notably the only record featuring the voice of Dodd himself. He is regarded as Jamaica's first child star.
His voice matured as he left his teens, around the time of ska's transition to rocksteady and this period in the late 1960s produced many hits including one of the first rocksteady records, "Dancing Mood", "Jerk in Time" (with the Wailers), "Feel Good All Over", "I'm Not a King", "True Believer in Love", "Rain From the Skies", "Conquer Me" and "Riding For A Fall". "Won't You Come Home", a duet with Ken Boothe on a rhythm originally cut by The Conquerors for Sonia has become one of the most-versioned Jamaican tracks ever. After leaving Studio one he recorded for numerous other producers, with varying degrees of success, and set up his own short-lived W&C label along with Wilburn Cole, and the similarly-fated Links label with
In 2013 Wilson was posthumously awarded the Order of Distinction by the Jamaican Government
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