Buccaneer is tagged as: dancehall, reggae, ska, bashment, ragga
Even by the ever-changing standards of dancehall, where fans always want to hear something new and different, the 1996 breakthrough of Buccaneer was a shocker. That’s because no one had demonstrated the desire, ability, or outright cojones to combine ragga toasting and opera before — but not only did Buccaneer pull it off, he wound up with a massive hit in “Skettel Concerto” by doing so, and set the course for a career full of such genre-defying moments. Yet Andrew Bradford had been laying the groundwork for his unlikely crossover move since youth: his mother had taught him classical piano and music theory when he was a child in Kingston’s Havendale suburb. Those lessons stayed with him when the family had to move to the West Kingston ghetto of Waltham Park, and he became a colorfully clad DJ dubbed Little Ninja, chatting with local sound systems. A friend gave Bradford his new nickname after admiring a pirate’s costume he’d concocted — complete with eyepatch that some say was necessary because of a sensitivity to light — and after putting in some time at King Jammy’s studio, Buccaneer developed a friendship with musician and producer Danny Browne, who provided many of the riddims for his early hits and became a longstan...
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