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Prince Lincoln began his recording career as a harmony singer along with Cedric Myton of The Congos in the late sixties in a band called The Tartans. He got signed up by United Artists, and released his first album Humanity in 1978.
The follow up album True Experience was released in 1979. His third LP Natural Wild was recorded in England collaborating with English pop musician Joe Jackson. None of these records were a commercial success. Yet he was able to set up his own label to produce a fourth album Ride with the Rasses, recorded in Jamaica in 1982, and then a fifth, Rootsman Blues, recorded in London in September 1983. With only 3 musicians playing on each track this last album was very intimate music, reminiscent of chamber music.
Prince Lincoln then opened an Ital vegetable and fish shop in Tottenham, London . He released a final album, 21st century, in 1997 after an American heard the music in his shop and agreed to become a sponsor.