[3][4] Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Hinds recorded his first single, "This is a Black Man's Country," in 1967 for producer Phil Pratt.

One of Andy's most enduring songs, "Skylarking", first appeared on Dodd's Jamaica Today compilation album, but after proving a sound system success, it was released as a single, going on to top the Jamaican chart.

This era produced a series of singles now regarded as classics such as a re-recorded "Skylarking", "Just Say Who", "Don't Try To Use Me", "You Are My Angel", "Zion Gate", "I've Got to Get Away", and a new version of "Something on My Mind".

[5] In 1979, Tapper Zukie released on his own Stars label, Horace Andy and Headley Bennett’s discomix, If I wasn't a Man tune, built around a variation on the horns refrain from Sound Dimension's Real Rock rhythm.

In 1978, both Horace Andy and Freddie McKay recorded their own discomix versions of Wentworth Vernal’s Studio One Coxsone Dodd hit tune, ‘The Rainbow”.

[2] Andy's 1978 album Pure Ranking had anticipated the rise of dancehall reggae, and he was a key figure in the early development of the genre, confirmed by 1982's groundbreaking, epoch making Dance Hall Style album, released on the innovative Bullwackie's label, out of his studio in White Plains Road in The Bronx.

1990 saw Andy's profile further raised when he began collaborating with Bristol trip hop pioneers Massive Attack, contributing to all five of their albums.