Beres Hammond Biography

Beres Hammond

Beres Hammond (born Hugh Beresford Hammond, 28 August 1955, Annotto Bay, St. Mary, Jamaica) is a reggae singer known for his romantic lyrics and soulful voice. While his career began in the 1970s, he achieved his greatest success in the 1990s.

Biography Reggae Crooner

This is the ninth child of a family with ten children; Hammond grew up listening to his father's collection of American soul and jazz music, like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding.
He was also influenced by the indigenous music of ska and rocksteady, Alton Ellis in particular ..  Hammond began participating in local talent contests from 1972 to 1973, which led to his first recording, of Ellis' Wanderer. "

In 1975, he joined the group Zap Pow as lead singer, leading to the result 1978 alone, the "System" under the label Aquarius Records. However, he simultaneously sought a solo career, releasing his first album, Soul Reggae, in 1976. His solo ballads "One Step Ahead" in 1976 and Joe Gibbs produced "I'm in Love" in 1978, were two hits in Jamaica. He left Zap Pow in 1979 to pursue his solo career and recorded two more albums Let's Make A Song in 1980 and Red Light 1981.


He has trained children on Tuesday, a group that toured in harmony, but never recorded.  Hammond formed his own label, Harmony Records, in 1985 for the release of his album Make a song, which had two Jamaican chart-toppers that were influenced by the emerging dancehall style: "Groovy Little Thing" and "What -One Dance Can Do. " 

The latter, produced by Willie Lindo, began to Hammond on the international market. He scored another success in 1986 with "Settling Down" on his self-titled release.

He left his fame in Jamaica to New York in 1987, after being tied up as thieves ransacked her home during a home invasion, where he recorded the album Have a Nice weekend and the duet single " How can we ease the pain "with Maxi Priest.

 
Hammond returned briefly to Jamaica to record Put a resistance, which was much harder than his typical ballads, produced by Tappa Zukie, which spawned the hits "Putting Up Resistance" and "Strange".
He signed with Penthouse label in 1990 and returned to Jamaica to record continuously the dancehall smash "Tempted to Touch", with producer Donovan Germain.C is perhaps his most famous song in the United States and United Kingdom.