“I always feel Chaka Demus was one of the best deejay an’ Pliers had a smooth sound. That year, they cut Gal Wine for producer Ossie Hibbert, and two years later linked with the legendary drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.ĭunbar commented on working with Chaka Demus and Pliers in a 2003 interview with the Observer. Initially, they did impromptu performances together but in 1991 after a show in Miami decided to formalise their partnership. Chaka Demus and Pliers had featured prominently in the dancehall movement of the early and mid-1980s but their careers had stalled by late decade. “Wi start do some likkle club date then some bigger place…Everything sold out.”Īt the time, rap music was rapidly taking over America and gradually took root in urban Britain, but there was still a following for Jamaican sounds. “Wi go Englan’ so much time is like wi did live dey,” he said. In a 2003 interview with the Jamaica Observer, Chaka Demus (John Taylor) spoke about the impact of Tease Me in England. Distributed by Island Records through its subsidiary Mango, Tease Me was eventually certified gold for sales of over 500,000 units. The third release, Twist and Shout, was the first song by a Jamaican act to top the British charts since Boris Gardiner’s I Want to Wake up With You in 1986. Twist and Shout (a cover of the Isley Brothers hit), Tease Me, She Don’t Let Nobody, Murder She Wrote, I Wanna Be Your Man and Gal Wine were the songs that made the British pop chart. It spawned six songs that made the British national chart, a first-time accomplishment that has never been surpassed. Within one year, the duo made music history and became the toast of England.Ĭhaka Demus and Pliers took Britain by storm 20 years ago with the big-selling, Sly and Robbie-produced Tease Me album (released as All She Wrote in the United States). AT the dawn of 1992, deejay Chaka Demus and singer Pliers were considered dancehall has-beens.
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