Little Joe (born Joseph Jackson, 1 July 1959, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae deejay who rose to prominence in the 1970s and had continuing success in the 1980s.
[1] He attended secondary school with Winston McAnuff, U Brown and Earl Sixteen, and they would perform concerts.
[3] In the latter half of the 1970s he released three albums and also returned to sound system work with U-Roy's King Sturgav setup.
[2][3] His big break in international terms came in 1980, when the Ray Symbolic Hi Fi sound system, with which he was then the resident deejay, toured the United Kingdom, raising his profile and helping his Weakheart Fadeaway become a major seller for Greensleeves Records.
He later moved to New York City, setting up a record label, also named Ranking Joe, which provided an outlet for his productions.