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Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo, the Jamaican reggae and dub producer and performer, was born with the altogether more mundane name of Horace Swaby and took his stage name from a recording pseudonym used by reggae artists Lloyd Chalmers and Glen Adams. Pablo will forever be associated with the melodica, a type of harmonica equipped with keys manufactured by Hohner. The melodica was used as a music teaching aid in Jaimacan schools and after being given one by a friend he learned to play it and often incorporated it into his recordings. After releasing some moderately successful reggae tracks he...