With this album, Maxi finally broke through on the UK charts, as his cover of Van Morrison's "Crazy Love" made an appearance there.īut international fame would come the following year, when Priest released his self-titled album. The next year, Priest followed up with an album called Intentions, which was a more commercially appealing set of songs. Produced on the Virgin subsidiary label, Ten, the traditional reggae album yielded three popular singles. He collaborated with Robinson, who helped produce Priest's first album You're Safe. Encouraged by this success, Priest went on to form a band of his own, Caution.
His musical future was confirmed in 1984, when he and Paul " Barry Boom" Robinson produced "Mi God Mi King." Sung by Philip Levi, the track was groundbreaking in that it was the first UK reggae song to hit number one in Jamaica. This association led to Priest occasionally taking over the microphone during live dancehall sessions.
In the early eighties, he was hired on to build speaker boxes for a local reggae sound system, Saxon. In fact, it was his work as a carpenter that led him to his musical destiny. One of ten children, he wasn't always involved in music. Maxi Priest songs, like Loving You Is Easy, become very popular and trendy online with a great number of streaming and downloads on Boomplay. Maxi Priest was born in the London borough of Lewisham and named Max Elliott.
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