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8 unusual facts about Pato Banton


1985 Handsworth riots

"Handsworth Riot" Pato Banton A song by reggae singer Pato Banton depicting the events of the riots with lyrics including first person accounts from blacks and Asians.

Colour of My Soul

Rob Derbyshire is an experienced touring musician, having worked as keyboard player with legendary former Motown artist Edwin Starr, while the other group member and producer Paul 'Solomon' Mullings worked with reggae bands in the Midlands and was a guitarist in Pato Banton's band.

Los Pericos

In April 2007, they returned to Mexico for the Reggae Music Fest featuring Pato Banton in their set.

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The album Universal Love featured a song covered by Banton called "United We Stand", which was written by fellow Birmingham musician Ray Watts, of the group Beshara.

In early 2005 Spiritual Guide Yahe Boda invited Pato to do a short tour across America to “Gather the People in Praise.” This experience led to Pato recording the inspired double album entitled “The Words of Christ,” a narrated album of Christ’s teachings as revealed in The Urantia Book.

Pato Banton (born Patrick Murray, 5 October 1961) is a reggae singer and toaster from Birmingham, England.

Rub It Better

# "Rub It Better" – 5:32 (Charlery/Wakeling/Patrick Murray)

Sotelúm

In 2010, Sotelúm begins to appear under his now popular pseudonym and after collaboratons with different artists such as Big Javy from Inspector, Nortec Panoptica Orchestra and Pato Banton & The Ghostownians, their concerns to play modern jazz led him to launch Minarete Brass Orchestra and his first studio LP: "Ecos del Alminar".


Groovin'

Two decades later, "Groovin'" was recorded by Pato Banton and it became a top 20 hit in the UK for him in 1996 and in the end credits of the 1996 Shaquille O'Neal film, Kazaam.


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