Little Roy (born Earl Lowe, 1953 in Witfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican roots reggae artist.
[1] Little Roy began his career at the age of 12 years in 1965 recording tracks with producers Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster.
He was the first to record a song with the word REGGAE with producer Prince Buster who named him Little Roy.
[1][2] He had his first number one hit with "Bongo Nyah" (1969)at the age of 16 years for Lloyd Daley ("the Matador"), the first song about the Rastafari movement to be successful commercially in Jamaica.
In May 2011 Little Roy collaborated with Prince Fatty and the Mutant Hi-Fi to record Sliver/Dive cover of Nirvana's early single.