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Trinity

Artist. Reggae, dancehall

Active
1976-2021
Sunrise
February 10, 1954, Kingston, Jamaica
Sunset
April 9, 2021, St. Andrew, Jamaica (complications of diabetes)
Also recorded as
Junior Brammer
Also known as
The Slick DJ

Wade Brammer, who deejayed as Trinity and later sang as Junior Brammer, was among the most in-demand voices in Jamaica in the late 1970s.

He was educated at Alpha, worked Kingston sound systems as Prince Glen, and took the name Trinity from the spaghetti western character. His first record as Trinity was "Set Up Yourself" for Joseph Hoo Kim in March 1976. "Words of the Prophet" followed for Yabby You, who produced his first album, Shanty Town Determination (1976), and late that year he cut "Crank Face" with his friend Dillinger at Channel One and the album Clash with him for the British producer Clement Bushay.

1977 was his year: more than twenty singles for Winston Riley, Tommy Cowan, Joe Gibbs and Yabby You among others. The one that carried was "Three Piece Suit" for Gibbs, toasted over a fresh cut of Alton Ellis's "I'm Still in Love With You" riddim made for Marcia Aitken. Its lyric, about clothes and money rather than Babylon, points straight at the decade that followed. It also produced an answer record that eclipsed it, Althea and Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking." The album Three Piece Suit (1977) followed, and Three Piece Chicken and Chips (1978) with Ranking Trevor.

He played the One Love Peace Concert in 1978, recorded "Funny Feeling" with Dennis Brown for Gussie Clarke in 1979, and "Judgement Time" with Ruddy Thomas for Joe Gibbs, which Howard Campbell thought "heard him at his peak," and "Lose Respect" and "I Need a Girl" with Barrington Levy, and started his own Flag Man label. As the deejay style changed he moved to singing, releasing "Telephone Line" and "Hold Your Corner" as Junior Brammer in 1987, and he worked the revival circuit for two decades afterward.

He had diabetes and departed at the National Chest Hospital in St. Andrew, aged sixty-seven.

Last updated November 5, 2026

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Notes

  1. The Rough Guide: "It is easy to forget just how popular Trinity was in the late 1970s." Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 163. It gives his name as "Wayne Brammer." Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 165. Wikipedia gives Wade. "Trinity (musician)," Wikipedia, accessed October 5, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(musician).
  2. The Rough Guide notes that streetwise deejays, Trinity among them, named themselves after screen characters. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 57. Alpha and the spaghetti western are from Wikipedia. "Trinity (musician)."
  3. The Rough Guide lists Trinity, "as Prince Glen," among the deejays who made their recording debuts in the early reggae years. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 126. Wikipedia dates "Set Up Yourself" to March 1976. "Trinity (musician)."
  4. The Rough Guide calls Shanty Town Determination "Trinity's 1976 album for Yabby You," and lists "Words Of the Prophet" among his tunes for the producer. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 165, 167. The Jamaican pressings are dated 1977. "Trinity - Shanty Town Determination," Discogs, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.discogs.com/release/4642927.
  5. The Rough Guide places "Crank Face," "the first of several successful 'combination' discs that the deejay pair cut," on Dillinger's Channel One album CB 200. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 158. Clash was issued on Bushay's Burning Sounds label in 1977. "Dillinger Verses Trinity - Clash," Discogs, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.discogs.com/release/2373263. Wikipedia credits both to Bushay. "Trinity (musician)."
  6. Bradley: "Trinity voiced tunes for Joe Gibbs, Vivian Jackson, Joe Joe Hookim and Winston Riley." Lloyd Bradley, This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music (New York: Grove Press, 2001), 304. Wikipedia gives the figure of "more than 20 singles" in 1977. "Trinity (musician)."
  7. The Rough Guide says the record used "an updated cut of Alton Ellis's 'I'm Still In Love With You'." Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 163. Bradley credits the deconstruction of the rhythm to Errol Thompson. Bradley, This Is Reggae Music, 353. The Rough Guide elsewhere notes that the song was recorded for Gibbs by Trinity and Marcia Aitken. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 311.
  8. The Rough Guide says the lyrics about his dapper attire "anticipated the dancehall era that was to come," and Bradley says the single "fully deserves its place in the deejay Hall of Fame." Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 163; Bradley, This Is Reggae Music, 304.
  9. Bradley says "Uptown Top Ranking" existed "only as an all-but-ignored alternative cut to deejay Trinity's 'Three Piece Suit'" until Mikey Dread's radio plays persuaded Gibbs to release it. Bradley, This Is Reggae Music, 318. The Rough Guide says it used "the same rhythm track." Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 162.
  10. The UK Three Piece Chicken & Chips appeared on Cha Cha in 1978. "Ranking Trevor / Trinity - Three Piece Chicken & Chips," Discogs, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.discogs.com/release/2421944.
  11. Bradley lists Trinity among the performers at the One Love Peace Concert of April 22, 1978. Bradley, This Is Reggae Music, 472.
  12. Howard Campbell, "Deejay Trinity Dead at Age 67," Reggae Global Radio, accessed November 5, 2026, https://reggaeglobalradio.com/rgr-times-with-howard-campbell/blog/deejay-trinity-dead-at-age-67, which calls "Three Piece Suit" and "Starsky and Hutch" humorous.
  13. Wikipedia dates "Funny Feeling" to 1979 and the Barrington Levy duets to 1979 and 1980. "Trinity (musician)."
  14. "Trinity (musician)."
  15. Wikipedia says he died on April 9, 2021, at the National Chest Hospital, of complications from diabetes. "Trinity (musician)."

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