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    The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry

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    Poster of the movie The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
    2008     Biography documentary    
    USA
    1h 35min

    The story of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who journeyed to the big city in the late 1950s with dreams of making it in the burgeoning record industry. Lee Perry burst on the scene with a brand new sound, inventing a genre of music that would come to be called reggae, while mentoring a young Bob Marley and gaining international recognition as a record producer and solo artist.

    "The Upsetter" charts 70 years in the life of Lee "Scratch" Perry in his own words through an exclusive interview given to American filmmakers Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough in Switzerland in 2006. It is equally a documentation of 30 years of Jamaican music and culture as it is a study of one of the most creative and inspiring human beings of all time.

    Directed byEthan Higbee, Adam Bhala Lough
    Written byEthan Higbee, Adam Bhala Lough

    Featuring

    Benicio Del Toro
    Carl Bradshaw
    Paul McCartney
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