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Two of Priest's sons are also singers Marvin Priest (born Marvin Cornell Elliott) and Ryan Elliott, who was in the 1990s boy band, Ultimate Kaos. His cousin, Jacob Miller, a reggae icon, was the frontman in the popular reggae group Inner Circle. His music is sometimes closer to R&B and pop than to reggae. He was a founder member of Saxon Studio International, and it was with Saxon that Maxi began performing at neighbourhood youth clubs and house parties. Priest grew up listening to Jamaican artists such as Dennis Brown, John Holt, Ken Boothe and Gregory Isaacs as well as singers like Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra.Īs a teenager, he lifted speaker boxes for the Jah Shaka and Negus Negast sound-systems. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother, who was a Pentecostal missionary. His parents had moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to gospel, reggae, R&B, and pop music. Maxi Priest was born in Lewisham, London, the second youngest of nine siblings. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion. Max Alfred Elliott, known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent.

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