General Trees

General Trees was born Amos Eughsha Edwards on 13 December 1960 in Drews Land, Kingston. Before turning to music full-time he worked as a shoemaker in his father's shop. He first made his name as a sound system deejay on Maurice Johnson's Black Scorpio system, a sound he had followed since childhood and on which his older brother had also deejayed.

He is widely credited as one of the finest exponents of the Jamaican "fast style" or speed-rapping delivery, a technique commonly said to have been introduced to the island from London by Papa Levi. General Trees built his reputation through the mid-1980s as a leading dancehall voice on the live sound system circuit.

His best-known recording, "Mini Bus", lamented the disappearance of the "jolly bus" from Jamaican roads and was named Song of the Year in 1986 by the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Documentation of his later career is comparatively thin, though he has continued to record and perform periodically since.