Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s.
11 Facts About Uziah Thompson
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Uziah Thompson worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums.
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Uziah Thompson was born the third of five children in rural Mannings Mountain, Jamaica on 1 August 1936.
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Uziah Thompson found employment with Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, assisting him with running his sound system, in time becoming a deejay with the system under the name "Cool Sticky".
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Uziah Thompson became one of the earliest men to record in the new deejay style, using his mouth to make clicks and other percussive sounds.
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Uziah Thompson rose to prominence as an instrumentalist in the early 1970s, beginning with a session by The Wailers for Perry in 1970, soon becoming one of Jamaica's top percussionists.
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Uziah Thompson became a regular session musician in several studios, including playing as a member of Gibbs' house band The Revolutionaries, recording prolifically throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and appearing on recordings by artists including Big Youth, Dennis Brown, The Congos, Culture, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Yabby You, The Wailing Souls and Serge Gainsbourg.
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Uziah Thompson performed as part of the live bands of several artists including Jimmy Cliff.
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In 1978, Sticky Thompson made a brief cameo in Ted Bafaloukos' film Rockers, playing the tambourine in the Harry J's Recording Studio with Kiddus I He was part of the Rockers All Stars, the group responsible for creating the instrumental music for the film.
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Uziah Thompson continued to play regularly on studio sessions for artists such as Bunny Wailer, Grace Jones, The Tom Tom Club, Gregory Isaacs, and Ziggy Marley throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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Uziah Thompson died on 25 August 2014, aged 78, at his Miami, Florida home after suffering a heart attack.