Michael "Ibo" Cooper OD (14 January 1952 – 12 October 2023) was a Jamaican reggae musician and musical educator.
Both had received formal training at different music schools run by their aunt and mother respectively in Jamaica, and both had played around the Kingston reggae scene before joining the original lineup of Inner Circle around 1968, when they left to form their own band in 1973.
[3] They took Inner Circle's drummer Carl Barovier and lead singer Milton "Prilly" Hamilton.
The group made its live debut that year at a stage show at the Carib Theatre during Jamaica's Independence Celebration.
In later years, he taught full-time as head of the Caribbean, Latin American and jazz department (Popular Music Studies) at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica.