Freda Gaye Bass - Obuary & Service Details

Contents:

• ANG ‘DMMIE ZEB’ GAYE OBUARY
• OBUARY OF BONNIE GAYLE BASS
• FREDA GAYE BASS OBUARY
• GAYLE BASS WIKI, AGE, B, HBAND, MOTHER, MARRIED, NET WORTH

ANG ‘DMMIE ZEB’ GAYE OBUARY

Ang “Dmmie Zeb” Gaye, who has died sudnly aged 62, was a foundg member of Aswad, one of the most succsful Brish reggae groups. Gaye’s propulsive dmmg, which often rporated trite rolls peppered by strikg rhythmic accents and sometim unmon time signatur, helped give Aswad a distctive edge om their earlit begngs the mid-1970s.

Gaye’s vol skills and songwrg abily were also put to good e the group, which he began ontg the mid-90s. However, even durg the early phase which the group strove to tablish themselv London’s burgeong reggae scene, Gaye’s sporadic stts on lead vols typilly yield exceptnal rults: the but sgle, Back to Ai (1976), wrten by the keyboardist Courtney Hemmgs, was sensively livered by Gaye at Hemmgs’ requt; It’s Not Our Wish (That We Should Fight) (1978), -wrten wh the bassist Gee Oban, and Judgement Day (1979), wrten by Gaye, gave voice to tratns experienced by young black Brish people durg a time of heightened racial tensn, while veneratg the Rastafari fah that gave solace to Gaye and his fellow band, the name meang black Arabic, origally prised the volist Brsley For, Oban, Hemmgs, the guarist Donald Griffhs and the keyboardist Tony “Gad” Robson, as well as the harmoni player Bunny McKenzie, though Robson was absent when the group nvced Island Rerds’ Richard Williams to sign them for their self-tled but 1976, the band beg too big to allow for two keyboardists. Island Rerds then sent Aswad to Jamai, where Gaye played dms for the visnary producer Augt Pablo and the bassist/producer Robbie Shakpeare as well as Burng Spear; he subsequently played dms on Bob Marley’s Punky Reggae Party, while the unual dm pattern he vised for Ja Kay’s heartbroken Silly Gam helped the song to reach No 2 on the UK pop charts the summer of ‘Dmmie Zeb’ Gaye sang vols on Aswad’s ver of the Ta Turner and Luther Ingram h Don’t Turn Around, a h for the band 1988After Aswad slimmed to a tr of For, Gaye and Robson the early 80s, and took a more mercial directn, Gaye’s sympathetic ver of Don’t Turn Around (a Ta Turner B-si that beme a h for Luther Ingram) topped the Brish pop charts the sprg of 1988, and a likable take of Stephen Bishop’s MOR ballad On and On reached the UK Top 25 the summer of 1989.

OBUARY OF BONNIE GAYLE BASS

Once For opted to pursue a solo reer the mid-90s, the tall and charismatic Gaye naturally beme Aswad’s ontman, his quietly exprsive voice subsequently beg the London to immigrant parents om Grenada and Carriau, Gaye was raised Ladbroke Grove, wt London, where he attend Holland Park school. Shortly thereafter, 1975, he joed ’s send stud album, Hulet (1979), saw Hemmgs replaced by Robson, and the band members g appellatns om the Twelve Trib of Israel acrdg to their Rastafari fah, wh Gaye creded as “Dmmie Zeb” (Zebulun).

FREDA GAYE BASS OBUARY

Followg For’s lead role the film Babylon (1981), whose soundtrack featured the rog Aswad stmental Warrr Charge, the group lnched the Simba label, s gural issue beg Johnny Osbourne’s hard-htg 13 Dead (Nothg Said), which mented on the woeful state rponse to the New Cross fire 1981, which 13 young black people died at a birthday party south-east ‘Gad’ Robson and Ang ‘Dmmie Zeb’ Gaye 1988.

After Brsley For went solo the mid 1990s, Gaye and Robson kept Aswad active as a tourg and rerdg un. Photograph: Rex/ShutterstockThe followg year, the dub album A New Chapter of Dub herald their return to Island, and by the time the label issued the ncert album Live and Direct!, rerd at the Nottg Hill rnival 1983, Gaye’s son Solomon was makg sporadic live appearanc wh the group as a would also handle the albums Distant Thunr (1988) and Too Wicked (1990), the group subsequently lnchg their own Bubbl’ label for self-produced work, achievg a Top 5 chart succs the summer of 1994 wh the optimistic She, which celebrated black For went solo, Gaye and Robson kept Aswad active as a tourg and rerdg un, wh releas signifintly ls equent. Freda Gaye Bass.

GAYLE BASS WIKI, AGE, B, HBAND, MOTHER, MARRIED, NET WORTH

Freda Gaye Bass, 84, of Jonboro, passed away Wednday June 27, 2018 at the Flo and Phil Jon Hospice Hoe. Gaye was my first , her Mom and my Dad beg siblgs. Obuary of Bonnie Gayle Bass.

Bonnie Gayle Bass, 50, passed away March 28, 2022 at her home Lexgton. Born Sumter, South Carola, on November 10, 1971, she was a dghter of Nancy Whieldon Peepl and the late Robert Edward Gayle. Bonnie was pre-ceased by her father, Robert “Bobby” Gayle; her maternal grandparents, Joe E.

And Jennie (Plown) Gayle; uncl, Joe E. Fay and iends mt say goodbye to their beloved Freda Gaye Bass (Jonboro, Arkansas), born Manila, Arkansas, who passed away at the age of 84, on June 27, 2018.