Michigan & Smiley

Anthony Fairclough, performing as Papa Michigan, joined forces with Erroll Bennett, who records under the name General Smiley, to rank among Jamaica’s earliest pairs of dual toasters. The comedic act got underway in the final years of the 1970s while both were still students, with Bennett’s alias arising from his famously unsmiling expression. Immediate hits arrived in the form of “Rub a Dub Style” and “Nice up the Dance,” tracks that spread rapidly across the dancehall sound-system circuit. “One Love Jam Down” soon turned into a crowd favorite, and the 1982 release “Diseases” cemented their status as headliners, most notably at the annual Sunsplash festivals. The partnership ended in the late 1980s, though scattered reunion attempts have surfaced in later years.