John Lester Nash, Jr, was born, August 19, 1940, in Houston Texas, was the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Jamaica. Nash is a pop singer/songwriter, who is best known for his 1972 hit, “I Can See Clearly Now”. Nash began his career as a pop singer in the 1950′s as well as doing some acting in the screen version of “Take a Giant Step”. He won a Silver Sail Award for his performance, presented to him, by the Locarno International Film Festival.
Nash recorded several hits in Jamaica, in early 1968, as his girlfriend at the time, had links to local television and radio host, Neville Willoughby. Nash planned on breaking the local rock steady sound in the United States. Willoughby introduced him to a local struggling vocal group, The Wailers, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh helped Nash transition to the local music scene. Nash signed all three to an exclusive publishing and recording contract with his JAD label and financed some of their recordings, some with Byron Lee’s Dragonaires and some with other local musicians such as Jackie Jackson and Lynn Taitt. None of the Marley and Tosh songs he produced were successful. Only two singles were released at the time: “Bend Down Low” and “Reggae on Broadway”, which was recorded in London on the same sessions that produced “I Can See Clearly Now.”
Nash was also an active composer in the Swedish romance Vill så gärna tro in which he portrayed Robert. The film soundtrack, partly instrumental reggae with strings, was co-composed by Bob Marley and arranged by Fred Jordan.
Cherine Anderson was born (Sept. 25, 1983) in Rockfort, East Kingston, Jamaica and is a Reggae musician as well as actress, and Dancehall vocalist. Anderson has performed with numerous other musicians like, Sly and Robbie, Wyclef Jean, Bootsy Collins, Sting, Michael Franti, Jimmy Cliff and many, many more.
Peter Tosh(October 19, 1944-September 11, 1987), originally named Winston Hubert McIntosh was born in Bellmont, Westmoreland, Jamaica and grew up in the ghetto, known as Trenchtown. He learned the guitar by listening to American radio stations. Peter took vocal lessons, as a youngster, with Joe Higgs, who introduced Tosh to Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. The three played day and night perfecting their vocal sound and harmonies. Higgs not only helped the three harmonize, but was also credited with teaching Bob Marley to play guitar. In 1962, he drove the formation of “The Wailing Wailers” centered around his magnificent trio, by adding Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith, and Junior Braithwaite. Their first single, “Simmer Down” became a huge hit, of ska sound, among Jamaicans, as well as others until Junior, Beverley, and Cherry left the band, leaving the core three to look for others to fill the rhythmic needs. 
