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Lloyd Charmers (born Lloyd Tyrell, 18 April 1946 – 27 December 2012, also known as Lloyd Chalmers, Lloyd Terell, or Lloyd Terrell)Ruddock, George (2012) " Lloyd Charmers' Passing A Big Loss", Jamaica Gleaner, 29 December 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012 was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, keyboard player and record producer.
He was also briefly a member of The Messengers, a short-lived supergroup that featured Ken Boothe, B. B. Seaton and Busty Brown.
He set up his own record label Splash in the early 1970s,Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter: "Reggae: The Rough Guide", 1997, Rough Guides, and moved into production.Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, , p. 308 Productions by him were notable for their sophisticated arrangements, releasing music with Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Max Romeo, Tommy McCook, The Abyssinians, Roy Cousins, Cornell Campbell, Gregory Isaacs, and The Silvertones. With his session musician the Now Generation he produced artists such as Ken Boothe (including some of Boothe's most successful solo releases of the period, such as his cover version of David Gates' "Everything I Own"), B. B. Seaton, the Gaylads, and Lloyd Parks.
Charmers later relocated to the UK where he continued to record and produce in a variety of styles, from lovers rock to disco.
In 1980, UK ska band the Specials had a hit with "Too Much Too Young", an adaptation of Charmers' 1969 song "Birth Control". In 2001, Steve Barrow's Blood and Fire (record label) collected Charmer's rarities on an album entitled Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973 - 1980, introducing his work to a new generation of listeners.
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