Once, Calvin 'Cocoa Tea' Scott was supposed to be a jockey. If how he rides a rhythm is any indication of how he would have saddled a horse, then legendary Winston 'Fanna' Griffiths would have been in trouble.

From the remake of Ray Charles' Crying Time on the King Jammy's cut of Heavenless in the mid-1980s, through to Barack Obama (on the album Yes We Can) to celebrate the US president in 2008, Cocoa Tea has fed dancehall a brew of his exquisite voice and on-the-spot concoctions.

An example of that came at last year's Reggae Sumfest, when Cocoa Tea was called in to pinch hit for the ill R Kelly. He ad-libbed on stage "Seet deh now only Coco Tea can save it/"I was not billed for the show...only Rastaman can cross it".

For while the songs are great - among them Rocking Dolly, Sonia, Buss Out A Hell and Ryker's Island - in a performance Cocoa Tea puts them together in remarkable fashion. His traditional opening Rastaman Chant sets the stage for a presentation of his songs as well as, quite often, his rockers take on R&B classics which never fails to steam up the ladies. It is not surprising, then, that he has made a musical promise to "take whey yu gal".

There are performances which show his breadth, such as a Sting Four the Hard Way with Dennis Brown, Freddie McGregor and Sugar Minott, then a clash at Cocoa Tea's own Original Dancehall Jam Jam with Ninja Man in 2007. Some of his more remarkable recordings are with Shabba Ranks and Home T Who She Love, Shabba Ranks Pirates Anthem and Buju Banton Too Young.

Cocoa Tea has established his own Roaring Lion Studios in Clarendon and, for a few years, ran the Original Dancehall Jam Jam, a New Year's Eve sound-system style session in Clarendon.

Link to Sting Four The Hard Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkimmS2wbcc

Link to clash with Ninja Man: ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Ofz_W9h98