Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo, born Horace Swaby, was a Jamaican musician and producer known for his prominent use of the melodica in reggae and dub. His work emphasized atmospheric instrumental arrangements, spacey echo and reverb effects, and deep rhythmic grooves; he performed as a keyboardist and melodica player and produced and arranged recordings that helped shape the instrumental and dub strands of Jamaican music from the 1970s onward. Pablo remained a distinctive figure for his plaintive melodica lines and studio-oriented sound until his death in 1999.