Monkey chop - Dan-I - 1980
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Dan
I (born Selmore Ezekiel Lewinson - born 1 July 1956, died 19 May
2006) was a British disco musician, signed to Island Records, who had
a Top 30 hit in the UK Singles Chart in
1979 with a single called
"Monkey Chop". He originated from Jamaica, and
Trevor Horn was the uncredited record producer of "Monkey Chop".
Without any further chart success, Dan I remains listed as a one-hit
wonder.
His stage name derived from his interest in numerology, meaning "number one". In the early 1970s he was asked by George Clinton to join his band Funkadelic, but he declined, believing he was too young. During the 1970s he worked with Cat Stevens, Andy Fraser,
and Joe
Jammer, and led his own club band, D-Dancer. D-Dancer split up in
1976, after which Dan-I spent a year in Nigeria before
embarking on a solo career, signing with Island Records after being
introduced by Linton Kwesi Johnson, and having a major hit with
"Monkey Chop", which he described as "music for the
new optimism". He moved to Los Angeles, California in the
mid-1980s, where he recorded several demos. He then moved to South
Africa before returning to London. He was murdered in May 2006.
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