In the mid-1960s, he joined the gospel outfit The Soul Seekers, from Calvary Apostolic Church in Camberwell; Steve Alexander Smith used his 2009 book British Black Gospel to note that "Mossop was a charismatic figure admired by hordes of female fans", and that a 1966 Gravesend show had "resulted in the group being mobbed by teenage girls, some of whom took their blouses off in order to throw them at Mossop".
[10] The song's success can be attributed to its popularity among British skinheads;[11] additionally, in 2017, Ian McCann of the Financial Times suggested that it had made the charts in spite of its "jerky ska rhythm" being "anachronistic even then".
[13] On 21 September 1969,[14] Mossop, Johnny Nash, Desmond Dekker, Max Romeo, the Rudies, Derrick Morgan, Jackie Edwards, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy James, the Skatalites, the Mohawks, Root and Jenny Jackson, and Black Velvet performed at Wembley Arena[11] for the first Caribbean Music Festival,[14] the first major reggae event to be held in Britain.
Charlie Gillett of Record Mirror wrote that Tribe's set had been "spoiled because of trouble with his group's amplification system", but that this did not "hide his beautiful soaring voice on "Speak Her Name" and his hit "Red Red Wine""; he also noted that the "thudding reggae beat which pounds through most discotheques and clubs was wisely restricted" during the festival, and this had enabled Mossop, Romeo, and Dekker "to prove themselves to be much better singers than their records suggest".
[16] Multiple sources, including McCann (2017)[10] and Tom Breihan of Stereogum (2021), claim that Mossop died in a car crash around this time,[5] with Smith (2009) further suggesting that it had happened in Canada in 1970 and had also killed members of Mossop's family;[1] however, a Tony Kingston, who according to a 2019 Louder Than War article by Ian Canty "seemed to match Tribe in voice and looks" and according to a June 1974 edition of Billboard had "recently" worked with producer Harry Hinde,[17] released several singles in Canada,[18] including "I Am the Preacher", a cover of Deep Purple's "Hallelujah",[19] which charted at No.
Additionally, Kingston released an album in 1973, Tongue Tied,[4] the blurb for which claims that he had moved to Canada "a little more than a year ago" from England, that he had travelled there from Jamaica to further his education, and that he had shared a stage with Nash, Cliff, and Dekker.