Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry was a Jamaican record producer, songwriter and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, Max Romeo, the Heptones, Adrian Sherwood, the Beastie Boys, Ari Up, the Clash, the Orb, and many others.

Born

1936

March 20

Died

2021

Era

1930s

Country

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About

Lee, in brief

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Key dates

1936 Born
2021 Died

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1206 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

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The world in 1936

When Lee arrived

april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 20

Amalie Sara Colquhoun 1894–1974 Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894) Chilly Gonzales 1972– Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Edoardo Ballerini 1970– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Elisabeth Geleerd 1909–1969 Dutch-American psychoanalyst (died 1969) Ivan Mazepa 1639–1709 Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1709) James P. Gordon 1928–2013 American physicist and academic (born 1928) Jenni Vartiainen 1983– Finnish singer John Joubert 1927– South African-English composer and academic (died 2019) Ovid -43– Roman poet (died 17)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1936

Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Anthony Payne 1936–2021 English composer (born 1936) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) B. J. Habibie 1936–2019 Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Brian Blessed 1936– English actor Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)

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