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"Vey few individuals in the entertainment industry have achieved the immense level of success as Eddy grant. Not only is Eddy an established and honoured composer, musician, producer and entertainer, he is a well respected and astute businessman and entrepreneur who has achieved cultural icon status." : Eddy Grant's Myspace
Maiia: Because of the big hit song Give Me Hope Joanna - about Johannesburg - I assumed Eddy Grant was South African. However he was born in Guyana (Sth America) grew up in London and lives in Barbados where he runs his music business. ICERECORDS
"Eddy Grant has done things differently and some of them in grand scale. He has led the way and even now in his semi-retirement from performance he leads. Beyond the soca creation controversy, he brought most West Indian performing artistes to a new awareness about intellectual property rights." more
Performance 2008 - Womad etc...
ELECTRIC AVENUE IS THE CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF A LASTING PIECE OF POPULAR MUSIC Number 2 in the hit-parde in 1983 It was UPDATED BY THE ORIGINAL ARTIST Eddy Grant in 2001 where it once again took the public imagination becoming a top ten hit once again.
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