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King Tubby

1941 - 1989

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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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Jamaica

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).

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Among MUSICIANS In Jamaica

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).

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