Floyd Lloyd
{{Short description|Jamaican musician and singer}}
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| birth_name = Lloyd Seivright
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|06|03|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|11|06|1948|06|03|df=y}}
| origin = Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = Reggae
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Floyd Lloyd (born Lloyd Seivright, 3 June 1948, in St. Ann, Jamaica – 6 November 2018{{cite web |date=November 6, 2018 |title=Reggae Ska Singer Floyd Lloyd Dead At 70 |url=https://urbanislandz.com/2018/11/13/reggae-ska-singer-floyd-lloyd-dead-at-70/ |accessdate=December 12, 2018 |website=Urban Islandz}}) "[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/floyd-lloyd-mn0000160506/biography/ Artist Biography]", AllMusic, Retrieved 28 July 2014 was a Jamaican reggae musician and singer who is best known for his 1982 hit, "Jah Jah Why?".
His first vocals were Wirl Studio recordings Rich Man Poor Man and Be Yourself in 1967.
Discography
- Better To Laugh Than To Cry (1982)
- Tear It Up: The Ska Album (1997)
- Our World (1998)
- Alchemy (2001)
- Believer (2002)
- Mind Over Matter (2004)
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Category:Jamaican reggae musicians
Category:Musicians from Saint Ann Parish
Category:20th-century Jamaican male singers
Category:21st-century Jamaican male singers
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