1. Eek-A-Mouse was born on Ripton Joseph Hylton, 19 November 1957 and is a Jamaican reggae musician.
16 Facts About Eek-A-Mouse
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Eek-A-Mouse is one of the earliest artists to be described as a "singjay".
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Eek-A-Mouse is well known for pioneering his own style of scatting, differing from the-then toasting deejays in the 80s.
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Eek-A-Mouse then went on to work for various sound systems over the next few years and released a few more singles.
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Eek-A-Mouse adopted the stage name "Eek-A-Mouse" in 1979, taking the name of a racehorse he always bet on; it was a nickname his friends had used for some time.
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Eek-A-Mouse featured on several of the live dancehall albums from the era, including the Aces International and Live at Skateland collections.
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Eek-A-Mouse travelled to the United Kingdom to record The King and I the same year, the album targeted at the rock crossover audience to which he had begun to appeal.
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Eek-A-Mouse returned to prominence with 1991's U-Neek album, which continued the rock-oriented style, including a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er", and from which the hit single "You're The One I Need" was taken.
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Eek-A-Mouse went through a period of relative quietness before returning in 1996 with the Black Cowboy album.
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Eek-A-Mouse has a performance in the 1991 gangster movie New Jack City playing a drug-dealing Rastafarian named Fat Smitty.
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Eek-A-Mouse performed in Jamaica for the first time in eight years in August 2015 at the Marcus Garvey Festival in Ocho Rios.
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Apart from his distinctive vocal style, Eek-A-Mouse has been noted for often wearing flashy and eccentric costumes during his performances.
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Eek-A-Mouse can be heard on the track "Auf der Flucht".
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Eek-A-Mouse fled the United States and an arrest warrant with a million dollar bond was issued.
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Eek-A-Mouse failed to appear at the first hearing and was given a failure to appear charge, with the court issuing an "order to arrest".
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Eek-A-Mouse was discovered to be in the Netherlands in 2010, but was unable to travel due to either an expired visa or the volcanos in Iceland.