About Fabian
Hometown
Panama
Born
2013
Genre
Pop
b. Faybienne Miranda, 1952, Panama. Miranda emigrated to the USA with her parents when she was four years old, spending her formative years on the east coast before adopting a hippie lifestyle on the west coast. Inspired by the film The Harder They Come she went to Jamaica, where she continually beleaguered the producer and sound system operator Jack Ruby. He finally succumbed to her pleas and agreed to produce her recording debut. The outcome of the session was the eternal ‘Prophecy’ that flopped owing to the lack of exposure in Jamaica. The song’s languished in obscurity thanks to censorship laws relating to the declared State Of Emergency. In the song Miranda cautioned, ‘Prophecy - Prophecy - Garvey prophesied - people hear the call - our backs are now against the wall’. The Black Disciples, who graced Burning Spear’s magnum opus Marcus Garvey, provided a suitable accompaniment to the apocalyptic lyrics. The song found greater success internationally, initially surfacing on an independent UK label c/w Jimmy Lindsay’s ‘Easy’. Miranda’s hit surfaced on expatriate Jamaican Lloyd Coxsone’s Tribesman label, before Island Records licensed both tracks for release on the Black Swan subsidiary. Miranda followed her debut with the similarly styled ‘Destiny’, echoing the extended words of its predecessor. The song featured the playing skills of Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass but failed to emulate its predecessor. Following a period of anonymity she resurfaced recording in the UK with the Mad Professor at his Ariwa studios. The unprecedented success of ‘Prophecy’ hindered her chances of greater achievements, as all subsequent works were evaluated against her initial hit. By 1989 Miranda was reputedly working with Augustus Pablo, although little surfaced from this collaboration.
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