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Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar (born 10 May 1952, Kingston, Jamaica) is a drummer, best known as one-half of the prolific Jamaican rhythm section and reggae production duo Sly and Robbie. Dunbar, whose nickname was reportedly given for his passion for Sly & the Family Stone, launched his musical career while still in his adolescence, playing with a local group, The Yardbrooms, at the age of fifteen. His recording debut was in 1971, when he appeared on an single, Double Barrel, by Dave and Ansell Collins. Dunbar subsequently continued to play with Ansell Collins in a band, Skin, Flesh and Bones. Meeting Robbie Shakespeare in 1972, then playing the bass guitar for The Hippy Boys, the two began a lifelong friendship. When Shakespeare was asked by producer Bunny Lee to recommend a drummer for a recording session for The Aggrovators, he remembered Dunbar. Following the session, Dunbar and Shakespeare agreed to keep working together. Their first break came when they accompanied Peter Tosh on his album, Legalize It (1976). The duo continued to play with Tosh's band until 1979, recording four additional albums — Equal Rights, Bush Doctor, Mystic Man and Wanted Dread and Alive and producing Tosh's hit duet with Mick Jagger, "(Keep On Walking) Don't Look Back" (1978). Working together with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly and Robbie are considered one of the world's premier rhythm sections for their work in the field of reggae. In 2001, Dunbar recalled that The Mighty Diamonds' song "Right Time" was particularly tricky, evoking both skepticism and imitation: "When that tune first come out, because of that double tap on the rim nobody believe it was me on the drums, they thought it was some sort of sound effect we was using. Then when it go to number 1 and stay there, everybody started trying for that style and it soon become established." According to The Independent, the entire album Right Time was "revolutionary", the breakthrough album of "masters of groove and propulsion" Dunbar and Shakespeare, with "Sly's radical drumming matching the singers' insurrectionary lyrics blow-for-blow."
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