12 Facts About Sydney Crooks

Sydney Crooks is a founder and original member of the Jamaican vocal trio The Pioneers.

Sydney Crooks was born on 24 February 1945 in Westmoreland in western Jamaica, where he studied elementary school.

Sydney Crooks worked as a clerk at a construction tool shop.

Sydney Crooks started singing at youth clubs in the same city.

Sydney Crooks met the legendary Joe Gibbs, producer and executive, who asked him to record "Give Me a Loving Litlle" while he recorded the song he needed a backing vocal and as they usually do in Jamaica they went round the door of the studio and found the current member of the vocal trio Jackie Robinson sitting on a rock, and was invited by Sydney Crooks aka Norris Cole to assist in music, and did so successfully, and was immediately invited to join the group.

Sydney Crooks is responsible for the rise of many of Jamaica's best artists.

Artists like Gregory Isaacs, that is, All I Have is Love, album produced by Sydney Crooks, that obtained great success in the whole world.

Sydney Crooks has opened his studio in Sao Luis Maranhao-Brazil, the "Pioneer International Recording Studio" and his hope is to help raise many singers reggae music from Brazil, such as his wife Lady Conceicao a singer and his son Norris Cole Jr, who teamed up with the legendary singer of the group The Congos, Cedric Myton, to make his first video clip entitled "War inna Babylon," which is seen all over the world.

Sydney Crooks has a large fan base, especially in the north of Brazil and in the interior of Maranhao.

Sydney Crooks is very active in Brazil, working behind the scenes, with his wife in front interacting.

Sydney Crooks was one of the first Jamaican blacks to live in the same area as Princess Diana in the seventies, until she was regularly followed to her home by the British police in Kensington, London; because when he drove to his house at night police followed him thinking he was a thief entering his own house at Kelso Place in Kensington, as his home was behind the house of Princess Diana's Sydney Crooks boyfriend says have nothing to prove to anyone.

Sydney Crooks still has a lot of talent left in him.