[1] Williams' first job in the music industry was as a deejay on the Sir Mike the Musical Dragon sound system,[3] also working as a security guard at Joe Gibbs' studio, and later as a bouncer at Studio One, but after recording "The Great Booga Wooga" for Bunny Lee in 1969 (under the name King Cry Cry, a reference to his habit of breaking into tears when angered),[3][4][5] he got the chance in 1970 to record for Coxsone Dodd when King Stitt failed to turn up for a session.
[1] Dodd was sufficiently impressed to release the resulting recordings,[1] Williams now using the name Prince Far I at the suggestion of another producer he had worked with, Enos McLeod.
[5] Spending an increasing amount of time in England, he also collaborated with UK On-U Sound Records including providing vocals in the reggae collective Singers & Players and may be considered a mentor figure to Adrian Sherwood.
Before the album was finished he was shot at his home in Kingston, Jamaica, during a robbery, allegedly relating to a dispute over money,[8] and died later in hospital.
Adrian Sherwood, deeply upset by the murder of his friend, took a production hiatus from his beloved reggae genre and in 1983 recorded with his group Circut and Neneh Cherry, "Dead Come Alive".