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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Leroy Wallace
Person · male · Jamaica · Kingston · born 1950 · recording since 2000
Jamaican musician
Timeline
3 events◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1950s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Original Armageddon Dub
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography132 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352171477
Biography
Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace (born 22 August 1950) is a Jamaican drummer who worked for several years at Studio One, and has worked with numerous reggae artists including The Gladiators, Inner Circle, Prince Far I, Sound Dimension, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, Ijahman Levi, Bruno Blum and Pierpoljak. He starred as himself in the lead role of the film Rockers. Wallace attended the Alpha Boys School in the 1960s and early 1970s, where he studied under Lennie Hibbert. Wallace also joined The Skatalites when they reformed in the mid-1970s. Wallace has been credited with inventing the 'Rockers' rhythm.
He has also recorded as a DJ on a number of tracks, for example "Herb Vendor", produced by Lee Perry, and "Universal Love", released under the pseudonym Mad Roy.
Solo discography
Original Armageddon Dub, Stable One
Far Beyond
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 1 | 13.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 58:43
1Let It Burn4:362Fire Burn4:313Live Good4:294Rastaman Dub5:115I Love Reggae3:396Reggae Dub5:197I Want to Be With You4:338I Want to Dub You Dub4:599Armageddon Dub3:1410Tribute to His Majesty5:1411Freedom Dub4:5012Marcus Garvey Dub2:3513New Day Dawning5:33
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Far Beyond / More CreationSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracksAFar Beyond AAMore Creation | 2001 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Leroy Wallace head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 1 | 13.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockamovya(band) | — | present | |
| Sound Dimension(band) | — | present | |
| Joe Gibbs & The Professionals(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/56f454cf-a7bc-467a-bdc1-d882be235e30discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/56f454cf-a7bc-467a-bdc1-d882be235e30core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730723genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730723seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Wallacebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Wallace
Why this artist is in the database
- List of reggae musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q730723 · MusicBrainz: 56f454cf-a7bc-467a-bdc1-d882be235e30
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