Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace

b. 1950, Rose Town, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Drummer Wallace began his career in 1964 and played with a variety of session groups including the Soul Vendors, the Sound Dimension and the Soul Brothers. These bands were frequently hired by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One and Wallace worked with luminaries such as Lee Perry and Jackie Mittoo. As Mad Roy he was one of Jamaica's early exponents of the new DJ style alongside Dennis Alcapone, U-Roy and King Stitt. In 1975 Wallace recorded, using the name Horsemouth, the track ‘Herb Vendor', which was a hit for Larry Lawrence's Ethn...