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Byron Lee & The Dragonaires

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Byron Lee & The Dragonaires

Byron Lee and the Dragonaires is one of the best known Jamaican bands. Byron Lee CD, played a crucial pioneering role in bringing Jamaican music to the world. Formed in 1956 and playing a big band-ska sound their big break came in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, where they appeared as the band in the scene at Pussfeller's club and played a number of tunes on the soundtrack. They also caused a stir at the New York World's Fair in 1964. As successful as the band was, Byron was also having success as a promoter, owner of the Dynamic Sounds label, and studio owner, and was one of the biggest reasons for the explosion in popularity of Jamaican music in the late 1960s and early 1970s.His studio remains one of the most popular in all the Caribbean. He continues to record and tour with his band, and they have become well known for including covers of popular tunes of top Caribbean performers, recently performing with Kevin Lyttle at the Cricket World Cup 2007 opening ceremony.Lee was awarded the Order of Distinction, Commander level on 15 October 2007, in recognition of his "contribution in the fields of Music and Entertainment both locally and internationally".
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This is a FAN page. This myspace was created to showcase the talent of this group, and to have the legend extend to old and new friends. There are no myspace sites that do Byron Lee justice, this page will fix that.


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Member Since: 9/3/2006
Band Website: byronleemusic.com
Band Members: byron lee & the dragonnaires - samie dead o

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Sounds Like: One of a Kind
Record Label: VP Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Send Get Well wishes to Byron

As most of you may or may not know, Byron has been battling Bladder cancer for awhile now.  He recently was interviewed  (April 11, 2008) by The Jamaica Star in regards to his battle wi...
Posted by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:57:00 PST

January 2008

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this myspace.  It all started in 2006, how time flies.  This year is the year to embrace the many sides of Byron that not everyone is familiar w...
Posted by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:02:00 PST

New Look for 2007!

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. To ring in the New Year we have changed the layout of the page and added Tiny Winey as one of the songs.  Take Care!
Posted by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:35:00 PST

Room for Improvements

If there are any songs you'd like to see on here, or pictures or anything of the sort then let us know and we'll fix it.
Posted by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:10:00 PST