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Beres Hammond
Beres Hammond (b. 28 August 1955) is a reggae singer from Jamaica who is known in particular for his romantic lovers rock. While his career began in the 1970s, he reached his greatest success in the 1990s. Born Hugh Beresford Hammond, the ninth of ten children, along Annotto Bay in Saint Mary parish; grew up listening to his father's collection of American soul and jazz music; including Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. He was further influenced by the native musics of ska and rocksteady, in particular Alton Ellis. Hammond began participating in local talent contests from 1972 to 1973, which led to his first recording, of Ellis' "Wanderer". In 1975 he joined the band Zap Pow as lead singer, leading to the hit 1978 single "The System" under the Aquarius Records label. However, he simultaneously sought a solo career, releasing his debut album Soul Reggae in 1976. His solo ballads "One Step Ahead" (1976) and Joe Gibbs-produced "I'm in Love" (1978), were both massive hits in Jamaica. He left Zap Pow in 1979 to pursue his solo career and recorded two more albums in 1980 and 1981. He formed Tuesday's Children, a harmony group that toured but never recorded. He formed his own record label Harmony Records in 1985 for the release of the Make a Song album, which had two Jamaican chart-toppers that were influenced by the emerging dancehall style: "Groovy Little Thing" and "What One Dance Can Do". The latter, produced by Willie Lindo, began to break Hammond into the international market. He scored another hit in 1986 with "Settling Down" on his eponymous release. He left his fame in Jamaica for New York City in 1987 after being tied up as thieves ransacked his house during a home invasion. There he recorded Have a Nice Weekend and the duet single "How Can We Ease the Pain" with Maxi Priest. Beres Hammond returned briefly to Jamaica to record Putting Up Resistance, which was significantly harder than his typical ballads, under Tapa Zukie, which spawned the hits "Putting Up Resistance" and "Strange." He signed with Penthouse Records in 1990 and returned to Jamaica permanently to record the dancehall smash "Tempted to Touch" with producer Donovan Germain. This is perhaps his best known song in the United States and United Kingdom (later remade in 2004 as a minor hit for Rupee), and set the foundation for the hits "Is This a Sign" and "Respect to You Baby" on the 1992 Love Affair album. Now garnering interest from major studios such as Electra Records, Beres recorded five more albums in the 1990s as well as several compilations, establishing himself as one of the top lovers rock artists. His first album of the new millennium was 2001's Music Is Life, which featured an appearance by Wyclef Jean. The 2004 release Love Has No Boundaries, had guest spots by Buju Banton and Big Youth. He returned to Jamaica to perform at the Cricket World Cup 2007 Opening Ceremony.
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In Top Gear's most ambitious and arduous challenge to date Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attempt to race from Northern Canada to the North Pole, 450 miles away. The terrain in between is some of the toughest on earth - a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees For Daisuke Matsuzaka, the hardest thing hasn't been the language, food, ball, mound, catcher, manager, teammates, workout routine, hotel beds, neighborhood, TV channels, or the Hammond Parkway rotary. The one thing that has blindsided him? He didn't anticipate that his privacy would be compromised to the degree it has... Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they fear is a sign that global warming is wreaking havoc in the whales' Bering Sea summer feeding grounds.
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