Education
He attended the Lysson All Age School, where his music teacher noticed his potential for music and nurtured him in his developing stages.
He attended the Lysson All Age School, where his music teacher noticed his potential for music and nurtured him in his developing stages.
As a teenager he worked as a selector under the name Junior Melody (sometimes Junior Buckley) for the Black Star Lincolnshire sound-system, and took part in several singing competitions and talent searches in and around Saint Gaining a strong local fan base Junior Melody began to sing dub plates for local sound-systems such as Lee"s Unlimited, Mello Construction, King Majesty and others The rave reviews from the sound selectors and the people of his community encouraged Junior Melody to take his talent to the next level, the studios of Kingston. He hitch-hiked to Kingston, and during an impromptu game of football at Arrows Dub plate studio he met Steely & Clevie.
After telling them that he was a singer, they invited him to Studio 2000, where he recorded his first tracks.
Their first song together was "Grow Your Natty", which was followed by the hit "Call The Hearse". With talks of an album Steely wished to change the name Junior Melody to Bushman.
Initially Duncan was unhappy with this name, he thought it somehow derogatory to him coming from the country, until he researched the name only to discover that "Bushman" was an African name for "Medicine Manitoba". "Call The Hearse" became a big hit in Jamaica, and was followed by "Rude Boy Life" and his debut album, Nyah Manitoba Chant (1997).
Nyah Manitoba Chant was described in The Rough Guide to Reggae as "as good an example of modern cultural singing as you could hope to find." Bushman them moved on to work with King Jammy, who produced his next two albums - Total Commitment, which collected most of the early singles he recorded for the producer, and Higher Ground.
A Better Place was the fourth album from Bushman. Foreign this album Bushman teamed up with the United Kingdom-based Stingray team His latest album Conquering Lion, featuring a guest appearance from Capleton, is scheduled for release on 19 October 2012.
