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Gospel Fish

Gospel Fish (Everald Thomas) is a Jamaican dancehall singer from Spanish Town, Jamaica. He was brought up in Thompson Pen Road, where his Rasta father taught him hand drums. DJ Jimmy Crazy named him Gospel Fish after hearing him sing in the local church choir. They duetted on 1987’s ‘Neighbourhood Cousin’, which Gospel, then working as a security guard, produced himself. ‘Walk An’ Wine’, ‘Ruff An’ Tuff’ and ‘Cash Ready’ followed, but it was over a year before he had his first two Jamaican hits, ‘Golden Rule’ and ‘Bandy Leg’. Dennis Star, his producer, brought him to the UK in 1988 for his first performances outside Jamaica. Before then, he had regularly appeared on the Happy Tone, Nite Flight, Lightning and Leo Taurus sound systems, inspired by DJs such as Lieutenant Stitchie, Tony Rebel and Professor Nuts. He began voicing for Captain Sinbad, Fashion Records and Gussie P, who all helped him gain exposure to a wider audience. He moved away from ‘slack’ themes to more cultural topics with tracks such as ‘Wickedest Thing In Life’, ‘You Must Be Fool’ and ‘Too Much Gun Talk’.

During 1991/2, he recorded for Soljie, Top Rank, Bee Cat and Taxi. He recorded a confrontational ‘burial’ tune called ‘Brush Dem’, which became his biggest Jamaican hit thus far. He made a guest appearance on the Aswad / Yazz collaboration ‘Hold On’ while in the UK in 1993, and also recorded for both Fashion and Sinbad, sometimes in combination, as with John McLean on Romantic Ragga.

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Peel first played Gospel Fish's material in 1989 on his show which was a collaboration with Jimmy Crazy. He would play further material from Gospel Fish's solo material into the early 90's, according to available tracklistings on this site.

Shows Played[]

Jimmy_crazy_&_gospel_fish_-_neighbour_cussing

Jimmy crazy & gospel fish - neighbour cussing

1989
1991
1992
1993

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