a solo artist, Sibbles worked with Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes, Lloyd Parks, Sly & Robbie, Augustus Pablo, Bruce Cockburn, and Lee Perry, but primarily produced himself. Sibbles moved to Canada in 1973, where he married and remained for twenty years, and won a U-Know Award for best male vocalist in 1983, and a Juno Award for best reggae album in 1987. He left the Heptones in 1976, midway through a US tour. Also in Canada, he recorded an album for A&M and licensed several albums to Pete Weston's Micron label, including Now and Strictly Roots. In 1990 he collaborated on the one-off single "Can't Repress the Cause", a plea for greater inclusion of hip hop music in the Canadian music scene, with Dance Appeal, a supergroup of Toronto-area musicians that included Devon, Maestro Fresh Wes, Dream Warriors, B-Kool, Michie Mee, Lillian Allen, Eria Fachin, HDV, Dionne, Thando Hyman, Carla Marshall, Messenjah, Jillian Mendez, Lorraine Scott, Lorraine Segato, Self Defense, Zama and Thyron Lee White. Sibbles continued to visit Jamaica, and performed at Reggae Sunsplash in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986, and 1990. He returned to the Heptones in 1991. In 1996 he recorded "Original Full Up" with Beenie Man. Sibbles is featured in the 2009 documentary Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae. He continued to perform and record into 2010. Production work Sibbles moved into production in 2009, and set up the Bright Beam record label. He has produced records by singer Sagitar and deejay Chapter, as well as his own recordings, including a successful cover version of "Harry Hippy". Solo discography Now (1980), Micron Strictly Roots (1980), Micron On Top (1982), Micron The Champions Clash (1985), Kingdom – with Frankie Paul Selections (1985), Leggo Sounds – also released as Mean While (1986), Attic It's Not Over (1995), VP Come Rock With Me (1999), Heartbeat Reggae Hit Bass Lines (2009), Ernie B Notes References Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004), The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn., Rough Guides, Bradley, Lloyd (2000), This is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music, Grove Press, Cooke, Mel (2006), "Voice, bass put Sibbles on top", Jamaica Gleaner, 3 February 2006, retrieved 2010-10-31 Katz, David (2000), People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Payback Press, Kenner, Rob (1997), "Boom Shots", Vibe, June–July 1997, p. 163 Keyes, Cheryl L. (2004), Rap Music and Street Consciousness, University of Illinois Press, O'Brien, Kevin & Chen, Wayne (1998), Reggae