Set Me Free - Emile Ford
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Channel: bajanmusicfan · 2014 · Music
Sweet Caribbean music from the 60's and 70's
Emile Ford is a musician and singer, who was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates. Emile Ford was born in Castries, Saint Lucia. He was born Michael Emile Telford Miller, the son of a Barbadian politician, Frederick Edward Miller, and Madge Murray, a singer and musical theatre director whose father had founded and conducted the St. Lucia Philharmonic Band. According to his own site, Emile Ford was responsible for creating a backing track system for stage shows, first used in 1960, which later became known as karaoke.[1] In 1969, he set up a recording studio in Barbados with the help of his father, before moving to live in Sweden. {Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ford)
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