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Finley Quaye

Amid a sea of slouching, anorak wearing, mop-topped Brit-pop posers, Finley Quaye suddenly burst into the charts in the mid-1990s with glorious sun-baked slices of reggae swagger and driving guitar pop. The son of the jazz and bebop singer Cab Kaye, Quaye grew up in Edinburgh and only met his father in his twenties, but inherited a love of jazz melodies and African rhythms. He first appeared as a vocalist on A Guy Called Gerald's club hit Finley's Rainbow in 1995, but it was his single Sunday Shining (a re-working of Bob Marley's Sun Is Shining) that really established him as a m...