THE UPSETTER – LIFE & MUSIC OF LEE SCRATCH PERRY
2011-03-28The Upsetter tells of Lee “Scratch” Perry, a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who journeyed to the big city in the late 1950s with dreams of making it in the burgeoning record industry.
Lee Perry burst on the scene with a brand new sound, inventing a genre of music that would come to be called reggae, while mentoring a young Bob Marley and gaining international recognition as a record producer and solo artist. The Upsetter charts 70 years in the life of Lee “Scratch” Perry and is equally a documentation of 30 years of Jamaican music and culture. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Benico Del Toro.