Artist Info: Max Romeo

Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith in St. D'Acre, St. Ann, Jamaica, on 22 November 1947' died 11 April 2025) was a reggae and roots reggae recording artist who has achieved chart success in his home country, and in the UK. The singer who put the rude in rude boy, Max Romeo was responsible for launching an entirely new sub-genre of reggae, whose overtly suggestive lyrics caused an outcry but took a massive hold of the music scene regardless. Yet innuendo was the least of the singer's stylings [read more...]