As he celebrates his 63rd birthday today, reports are that superstar Eddy Grant is working on a new album which would likely be released next year.
The most prolific and famous Guyanese artist to date—he has put out some 13 albums—Eddy has been making music for more than 45 years and looks set to continue for another 45.
He formed the interracial pop/rock band The Equals around 1965-66 and its first hit was “Baby Come Back” around 1968.
Since then, except for a period in the early 70s when he would have been recuperating from a heart attack he suffered as a young man, Eddy has been making music and churning out hits. The more famous of these include “Black Skin, Blue Eyed Boys” (with The Equals), “Living on the Frontline”, “Hello Africa”, “Walking on Sunshine”, “Do You Feel My Love?” “Can’t Get Enough of You”, “I Don’t Wanna Dance”, “Electric Avenue” and “Gimme Hope Jo’anna”.
In addition, he opened his own recording studio, Ice Records and subsequently a commercial recording studio complex known as Blue Wave in Barbados.
Though he is still regarded as a pop/rock musician, in the annals of Caribbean music he would have to be credited for his commitment to popularizing and preserving calypso and soca and conceptualizing ringbang.
