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Count Machuki
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Count Machuki (b. Winston Cooper) is regarded to be one of the first if not the first deejays. What he did was to change the role of the sound system DJ from a person that only puts on the records to a person who had live contact with the audience with the help of a microphone. Count Machuki started out as a disc selector in 1950 for Tom the Great Sebastian (b. Tom Wong). Machuki later moved on to work with Clement Dodd and his Sir Coxsone's Downbeat. It was with Coxsone's sound on a Easter concert (1956?) that he first chatted on the microphone while selecting records and… read more
Count Machuki (b. Winston Cooper) is regarded to be one of the first if not the first deejays. What he did was to change the role of the sound system DJ from a person that only puts on the … read more
Count Machuki (b. Winston Cooper) is regarded to be one of the first if not the first deejays. What he did was to change the role of the sound system DJ from a person that only puts on the records to a person who had live contact with … read more
