History:
Robert Lee is born in the Waterhouse district of Kingston. He makes his record debut in 1985 with his first song call “Leader”on the Fishtea label. He was than introduced to King Jammys by John Wayne, Pampidoo and Tollo T, where he start recording for Jammys.
He established himself as the original Soundkilla. His Dubs are played in every worldclash by soundsystems like Addis, Mighty Crown, LP, Killamanjaro, Stone Love and Guiding Star. Still today he is in demand for voicing Dubs worldwide
His first songs for Jammys “Lovely Lady”, “Fantacy World”, “Masterpiece” “Life is like a dream” were released on the compilation albums Super Power Vol 1 + 2, which is produced by King Jammy. He scores several hits in Jamaica like "Midnight Hour", "Raggamuffin Sound", "Senseless Killing". With the tune "Run For Cover" he was the first who introduce the young Elephant man to the Dancehall massive. His songs also end up on several well-known compilation albums longside Artists like Cocoa Tea, Gregory Isaacs, Franky Paul to name a few. He was also in charge of the auditions at the studio searching for young talents, which he auditioned Artist such as Goofy, Dynamite, Harry Toldler, Devonte. He then decides to leave Jamaica and move to the UK. Shortly before leaving the Island he recorded some new songs like "Stride" , "I Spy" and “Too much war” for UK based producer Martin Campbell of Channel One UK. Those tracks were very well received in Europe.
During his stay in the UK he went to Holland and runs into Anonymous Mis, frontman of Dutch reggae band Postmen. Lee writes the song “Fawaka” which is included on Postmen's second album “Revival”. He also joins the band on stage whenever they go on tour.With Anonymous Mis he starts recordings his debut album for Virgin Records which is titled “In fine style” and was released in 2002. The first single “No one cares” did well in the Ducth national charts and was on rotation on MTV, TMF, the BOX and was shown in Holland, Belgium, Luxenburg. The next single “Stess” also did well in the Charts.This excellent reggae album gets good press reviews allover Europe. In the same year Robert Lee received the Essent Music Award in Netherlands for the best reggae album.
He is still busy with stage shows, recordings and voicing killer dubplates (including the well demanded "Bang Bang" special). Robert Lee is now preparing an anthology of his earlier works for King Jammy's. He recently recorded new singles for many European labels including Rythm & Sound, Mellow Sound, Heartical and more.