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Count Matchuki
Jamaican deejay
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Birth name | Winston Cooper |
Born | c. 1929 Kingston, Jamaica |
Died | 1995 |
Genres | Ska |
Occupation | Deejay |
Years active | 1950s–1960s |
Musical artist
Winston Cooper (c. 1929–1995), better known as Count Matchuki or Count Machuki, was a Jamaicandeejay.
Biography
Cooper was born c. 1929[1] in Kingston, Jamaica,[2] and began working on sound systems in the 1950s, when the music played was largely American R&B.
His stage name of Count Matchuki derived from his habit of chewing matchsticks.[3] He initially worked on Tom Wong's Tom the Great Sebastian system and later the Tokyo the Monarch system, before moving on to Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Downbeat Sound System.[4][5] He added talkovers to the songs, emulating the jive talk of American radio DJ's at the request of Dodd, who became familiar with the US style on his visi