Winston Evans better known as Icho Candy, is a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 singer.

Biography

Icho Candy first came to prominence singing with sound systems such as the one run by producer Jack Ruby

Jack Ruby (record producer)

Lawrence Lindo , better known as Jack Ruby, was a Jamaican record producer and sound system operator, best known for his 1970s productions of artists such as Burning Spear....

. Ruby produced Candy's debut release, "Little Children No Cry", but it was not a success, and Candy moved on to work with Joe Gibbs

Joe Gibbs (record producer)

Joe Gibbs born Joel A. Gibson was a Jamaican reggae producer.-Biography:Joe Gibbs worked as an electronics engineer in the United States before his career in music started. Gibbs eventually returned to Kingston, Jamaica and opened an electrical repair shop with television repairs and sales as its...

, with whom he recorded "Bandulu". His third single, "Captain Selassie I" gave him a breakthrough, proving to be his biggest hit, although he received little financial reward. His career got a boost when a performance on Ruby's sound system was featured in the Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 documentary Deep Roots Music, leading to interest from the UK. He recorded more successfully for 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...

's Ujama label, with singles such as "Mr. User" and "Bloodsucker". He went on to record for Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo

Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...

 before working with Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka has been operating a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rastafarian term for God and that of a Zulu warrior, Shaka Zulu.-Career:...

 in the late 1980s and 1990s, releasing two albums on Shaka's label.

Candy's signature tune, "Captain Selassie I", originally released on the Jwyanza label, has become very popular since its release in 1983 and remains sought-after in its 45rpm single format.

Icho Candy continues to perform live, including a set at Rebel Salute in 2009.

Albums

• Devils High (1990), Black Star
• Glory to the King (1993), Jah Shaka
• Dub Salute 2 (1994), Jah Shaka

Singles

• "Little Children No Cry"
• "Bandulu", Joe Gibbs
• "Captain Selassie I" (1982), Joe Gibbs
• "Jah Calling All Over The World" (1986), Creation
• "Cool Down Sufferer" (1987), Selah
• "Babylon" (1987), Rockers
• "Mr. User", Ujama
• "Blood Sucker" (1988), Ujama
• "Send Back The Gun", Captain Selassie-I
• "Change Partner"
• "Down the Lakes"