What's Your Sign - Music

Barry Biggs Born 1947 Although Some Accounts List 1953 1 St. Andrew Jamaica Is A Reggae Singer Best Known In The UK For His Cover Of The Blue Magic Song "Sideshow" Which Got To #3 In The UK Singles Chart In 1977 Biggs Worked As An Recording Engineer And Cameraman With The Jamaican Broadcasting Company And Also Spent Time As A Member Of The Band The Astronauts Before Becoming The Lead Singer For Byron Lee's Dragonaires. 1 3 It Was At Lee's Dynamic Sounds Studio Where He Also Worked As A Producer And Engineer That Biggs Recorded His First Jamaican Hit A Cover Of The Osmonds' One Bad Apple. 1 3 He Broke Through To International Success In 1976 With Work All Day Which Had Been Recorded Seven Years Earlier. 1 3 Biggs Had Six Hit Singles On The UK Singles Chart Between 1976 And 1981 The Most Successful Of These Sideshow Reaching #3 In January 1977. 4 He Recorded Two Songs With Bunny Lee Sincerely And You're Welcome Which Did Well In Reggae Charts. 3 He Topped The Reggae Chart In The UK With Wide Awake In A Dream And A Promise Is A Comfort To A Fool. 3 Many Of Biggs' Recordings Were Reggae Cover Versions Of Popular Soul Hits Including Songs Such As Stevie Wonder's - My Cherie Amour Sideshow And Three Ring Cicus By Blue Magic And Others Originally By The Chi-Lites The Moonglows Sincerely And The Temptations Just My Imagination . 5 Unlike Many Of His Contemporaries He Avoided The Political And Rasta Themes Then Popular In Jamaica. 1 Biggs Continued To Perform Occasionally In The 2000s Notably At A Service Of Thanksgiving For His Former Bandleader Byron Lee In 2008. 6 read less