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THE STAR has been the leading entertainment newspaper for 59 years and so we have built up an impressive collection of photographs of some of our favourite entertainers. You name them, we have them. So, in our latest feature, we will be digging deep into our archives to show you some of the oldest pictures of these artistes. Showcasing pictures of entertainers such as Sizzla Kalonji, ZJ Liquid and Lady Saw, Nadine Sutherland, Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel, Tanya Stephens, Marcia Grffiths, Bounty Killer, Spragga Benz, Barrington Levy and veteran Freddie McGregor.

'The Captain' Freddie McGregor is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with an incredibly steady career that started all the way back in the 1960s when he was just seven years old. In 1963, he joined with Ernest Wilson and Peter Austin to form The Clarendonians and began to record for the Studio One label.

In 1975, McGregor converted to Rastafari, which had a profound impact on his music. His popularity soared in the early 1980s with the release of Bobby Babylon. Other popular hits of McGregor's include Big Ship, Push Comes to Shove, Just Don't Want to Be Lonely and I Was Born a Winner; as well as cover versions of many early reggae standards. He has also worked with producers Junjo Lawes, Linval Thompson, and Gussie Clarke and has toured extensively for many years.

In 1984, he inaugurated his own Big Ship label, secured a licensing agreement with RAS Records in the US and released Come On Over in 1987. After slowing his pace in the late 1990s, McGregor returned in 2000 with the acclaimed Signature, which restored his typical balance of roots reggae and lovers rock with touches of dancehall. He followed up two years later with a similarly well-received album, the Grammy nominated, Anything for You.

McGregor has spanned nearly every stylistic shift in Jamaican music, from ska and rocksteady to Rastafarian roots reggae to lovers rock to dabblings in dancehall, ragga, and dub.

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