1941 - 1989
Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.Tubby's studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be influential across many genres of popular music. He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix that later became ubiquitous in dance and electronic music production. Singer Mikey Dread stated, "King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of King Tubby has received more than 476,849 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). King Tubby is the 1,389th most popular musician (down from 1,293rd in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 31st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Jamaican Musician.
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Among musicians, King Tubby ranks 1,389 out of 2,662. Before him are Mark Evans, Alexander Brailowsky, Vinny Appice, Nat Adderley, Sven Väth, and Edo de Waart. After him are Larry Mullen Jr., Jim Root, Geoff Nicholls, John Lurie, Blind Blake, and Janine Jansen.
1956 - Present
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 1,383
1896 - 1976
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 1,384
1957 - Present
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 1,385
1931 - 2000
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 1,386
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 1,387
1941 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 1,388
1941 - 1989
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 1,389
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 1,390
1971 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 1,391
1948 - 2017
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 1,392
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 1,393
1893 - 1934
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 1,394
1978 - Present
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 1,395
Among people born in 1941, King Tubby ranks 392. Before him are Stokely Carmichael, Alberto Mario González, Torgeir Brandtzæg, Christopher Jones, Michael Lerner, and Edo de Waart. After him are Vidin Apostolov, Gilbert Kaplan, Inger Aufles, Jean Vallée, Paola Pitagora, and Trish Van Devere. Among people deceased in 1989, King Tubby ranks 205. Before him are Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Roberto Figueroa, Rostislav Plyatt, José Augusto Brandão, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, and George Coulouris. After him are Hu Die, Ödön Zombori, Jean Despeaux, Scott O'Dell, Birago Diop, and John Pritchard.
1941 - 1998
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 386
1941 - 2023
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 387
1941 - Present
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 388
1941 - 2014
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 389
1941 - 2023
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 390
1941 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 391
1941 - 1989
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 392
1941 - 2020
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 393
1941 - 2016
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 394
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 395
1941 - 2014
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 396
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.96
Rank: 397
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 398
1913 - 1989
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 199
1904 - 1989
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 200
1908 - 1989
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 201
1911 - 1989
HPI: 46.28
Rank: 202
1896 - 1989
HPI: 46.17
Rank: 203
1903 - 1989
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 204
1941 - 1989
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 205
1908 - 1989
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 206
1906 - 1989
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 207
1915 - 1989
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 208
1898 - 1989
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 209
1908 - 1989
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 210
1921 - 1989
HPI: 45.29
Rank: 211
Among people born in Jamaica, King Tubby ranks 36 out of 168. Before him are Asafa Powell (1982), Patrick Allen (1951), Leonard Howell (1898), Monty Alexander (1944), Raheem Sterling (1994), and Portia Simpson-Miller (1945). After him are Don Quarrie (1951), Gregory Isaacs (1951), Horace Andy (1951), Claude McKay (1889), Alton Ellis (1938), and Ziggy Marley (1968).
1982 - Present
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 30
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 31
1898 - 1981
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 32
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 33
1994 - Present
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 34
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 35
1941 - 1989
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 36
1951 - Present
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 37
1951 - 2010
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 38
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 39
1889 - 1948
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 40
1938 - 2008
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 41
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 42
Among musicians born in Jamaica, King Tubby ranks 9. Before him are Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Desmond Dekker (1941), Sean Paul (1973), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Prince Buster (1938), and Monty Alexander (1944). After him are Horace Andy (1951), Ziggy Marley (1968), Damian Marley (1978), Augustus Pablo (1954), John Holt (1947), and Diana King (1970).
1936 - 2021
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 3
1941 - 2006
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 4
1973 - Present
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 5
1955 - Present
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 6
1938 - 2016
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 8
1941 - 1989
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 9
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 10
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 11
1978 - Present
HPI: 43.45
Rank: 12
1954 - 1999
HPI: 43.07
Rank: 13
1947 - 2014
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 14
1970 - Present
HPI: 37.53
Rank: 15