Born 1945 in Kent/England, ska and reggae vocalist Judge Dread was the first white musician to score a reggae chart hit in Jamaica. He is especially famous for his humorous sexually explicit lyrics, and holds a record in the Guinnes Book as the artist with the most songs banned from BBC airplay. In 1998, Judge Dread died on stage during a concert in Canterbury, suffering a heart attack.
Notably lived in Snodland, Kent where he once changed the street sign to Dreadland.