The Meditations

Even by Jamaican standards, the Meditations' early career is convoluted, and both Ansel Cridland and Danny Clarke's careers were already well underway before the pair got together. Cridland, born in 1951, moved to Kingston as a child, and apprenticed as a jockey. He ended up working odd jobs before deciding to make his career as a singer and formed the vocal group the Linkers during the rocksteady era. The group's lineup was fluid, but regardless, the Linkers recorded nearly a dozen singles, although none particularly hit with the public. Clarke, a Kingstonian by birth, had su...