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Digital, Bobby

LC control no.no 98025698
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Personal name headingDigital, Bobby
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Variant(s)Dixon, Bobby Digital
Dixon, Digital
Dixon, Robert (Musician)
Other standard no.0000000052139726
4542482
Q1558572
Associated countryJamaica
Birth date1961-03-11
Death date2020-05-21
Place of birthKingston (Jamaica)
Place of deathKingston (Jamaica)
Field of activityElectronic dance music Remixes Reggaetón
Profession or occupationSound recording executives and producers
Special noteMachine-derived authority record.
Do not confuse with: RZA (Rapper) (no 99013830), who has also used the nickname Bobby Digital; born, Robert Diggs, 1969.
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Found inLCCN 93-721333: Gal yuh good ; Version, 198-? (Bobby Digital)
Encycl. of pop. mus. (b. Robert Dixon, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies; Bobby "Digital" Dixon)
New York times, May 30, 2020 (Bobby Digital; born Robert Dixon Mar. 11, 1961 in Kingston [Jamaica], died May 21 in Kingston, aged 59; as Bobby Digital became one of Jamaica's most influential producers and whose production of the Shabba Ranks song "Dem Bow" became a cornerstone of reggaeton and 21st century pop; in the 1980s, Bobby Digital was at the forefront of dancehall's transformation from rhythm tracks built primarily on live studio performances to computerized and electronic beats)