Live Chat :- Honoring a Living Reggae Icon BARRY BIGGS Music Legacy

Barry Biggs is a Jamaican reggae singer, best known in the UK for his cover of the Blue Magic song, "Sideshow", which got to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.Biggs was a recording engineer and cameraman with the Jamaican Broadcasting Company,also a member of the band the Astronauts, before becoming the lead singer for Byron Lee's Dragonaires.

Biggs recorded his first Jamaican hit, a cover of The Osmonds' "One Bad Apple". He broke through to international success in 1976 with "Work All Day". Biggs had 6 hit singles on the UK Singles Chart between 1976 -1981, most successful was, "Sideshow", reaching # 3 in January 1977. He recorded two songs with Bunny Lee; "Sincerely" and "You're Welcome" . He topped the reggae chart in the UK with "Wide Awake in a Dream" and "A Promise is a Comfort to a Fool".

 Biggs' other reggae cover versions of popular soul hits, Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour"; "Sideshow" and "Three Ring Circus" by Blue Magic; and others originally by The Chi-Lites, The Moonglows ("Sincerely"), The Temptations ("Just My Imagination"). His version of "Love Come Down", recorded by Evelyn "Champagne" King, was a top 5 hit in 1983 in The Netherlands.