Clement "Clem" Bushay is a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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-based reggae

Reggae

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 producer who also ran the Bushays record label.

Biography

Bushay's productions in the early 1970s were issued by Trojan Records

Trojan Records

Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968. It specialises in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music. The label currently operates under the Sanctuary Records Group. The name Trojan comes from the Croydon-built Trojan truck that was used as Duke Reid's sound system in Jamaica...

, and he produced early releases by Owen Gray

Owen Gray

Owen Gray also known as Owen Grey is one of Jamaica's 'Foundation' singers whose work spans the R&B, ska, rocksteady, and reggae eras of Jamaican music, and he has been credited as Jamaica's first home-grown singing star....

 and Louisa Mark

Louisa Mark

Louisa Lynthia Mark, also known as 'Markswoman' was a British lovers rock singer best known for her work between the mid-1970s and early 1980s...

 (including her hit "Keep It Like It Is"), and was one of the early producers of UK Lovers rock

Lovers rock

Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid 1970s.-History:...

. He produced the debut album by Tapper Zukie

Tapper Zukie

Tapper Zukie is a reggae deejay and producer.-Biography:Tapper was the nickname given to him by his grandmother in his youth, while Zukie was a name that came from his friends' association as a young boy - their gang was called 'The Zukies'.In 1973 his mother, concerned with Zukie's tendency to...

, Man a Warrior, in 1973. He became a regular producer for UK-based reggae artists such as Junior English

Junior English

Junior English is a Jamaican-born reggae singer who began his career in the early 1960s before relocating to England.-Biography:English was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1951...

, and Janet Kay

Janet Kay

Janet Kay is a British singer of Jamaican parentage best known for her lovers rock songs of the late 1970s - "Silly Games" and a cover of Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You". She has also had roles as a theatre and television actress...

, and visiting Jamaican artists, producing Dillinger

Dillinger (musician)

Dillinger is a reggae artist.-Biography:As a young man growing up in Kingston, Dillinger would hang around Dennis Alcapone's El Paso sound system...

 and Trinity

Trinity (musician)

Trinity aka Junior Brammer is a reggae deejay and producer, whose career began in the mid-1970s and continued into the 1990s.-Biography:Born in 1954, Brammer was educated at the Alpha Boys School...

's Clash album, and recordings by Rico Rodriguez

Rico Rodriguez

Rico Rodriguez MBE , also known as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae trombonist. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd 'Matador' Daley...

. Bushay had a reggae chart-topper with Louisa Mark's "Six Sixth Street". After working for several years with the Burning Sounds label, when that folded he formed his own Bushays label in the late 1970s, largely concentrating on lovers rock, with productions of artists such as Janet Kay, Al Campbell

Al Campbell

Al Campbell is a Jamaican reggae singer active since the late 1960s.-Biography:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Campbell's singing career began in church, where his father was a preacher, and Al would sing to raise funds...

, and Dave Barker

Dave Barker

Dave Barker is a reggae and rocksteady singer who has made a string of solo albums along with recordings as a member of The Techniques and as half of the duo Dave and Ansell Collins.-Biography:...

. He also set up another label, Bushranger. The Bushays label continued through the 1980s, with releases by The Morwells

The Morwells

The Morwells aka Morwell Unlimited were a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1973 by Maurice Wellington and Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont. They disbanded in the early 1980s with members going on to form the Roots Radics.-History:...

, Prince Jazzbo

Prince Jazzbo

Prince Jazzbo is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay and producer.Prince Jazzbo began recording with Coxsone Dodd's Studio One label in the early 1970s...

, Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....

, Tony Tuff

Tony Tuff

Tony Tuff is a reggae singer who was a member of The African Brothers in the late 1960s and 1970s before embarking on a solo career.-Biography:...

, Barrington Levy

Barrington Levy

Barrington Levy is a reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica.-Career:In 1976, Levy formed a band with his cousin, Everton Dacres, called the Mighty Multitude; the pair released "My Black Girl" in 1977...

, and Jah Thomas

Jah Thomas

Nkrumah "Jah" Thomas is a reggae deejay and record producer who first came to prominence in the 1970s, later setting up his own Midnight Rock and Nura labels.-Biography:...

.

Bushay is now retired and lives in Kent

Kent

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. He has ten children named Rodney, Kerry, Kwesi, Sabrina, Michelle (also known as Silhoutte), Cori, Gemma, Jermaine, Shikisha and Talitha. His daughter Michelle (Silhoutte) Bushay was featured as a vocalist on Clement's tracks entitled "So I Can Love You" and "Why Did You Let Me Down".

External links

• Discography at Roots Archives.
• Bushays label 12" single discography