LC control no. | no 98025698 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Digital, Bobby |
Variant(s) | Dixon, Bobby Digital Dixon, Digital Dixon, Robert (Musician) |
Other standard no. | 0000000052139726 4542482 Q1558572 |
Associated country | Jamaica |
Birth date | 1961-03-11 |
Death date | 2020-05-21 |
Place of birth | Kingston (Jamaica) |
Place of death | Kingston (Jamaica) |
Field of activity | Electronic dance music Remixes Reggaetón |
Profession or occupation | Sound recording executives and producers |
Special note | Machine-derived authority record. Do not confuse with: RZA (Rapper) (no 99013830), who has also used the nickname Bobby Digital; born, Robert Diggs, 1969. URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs. |
Found in | LCCN 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) |