Barnes was a protégé of
Prince Buster, and recorded several singles during the 1960s. Lloyd Barnes worked for
Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label as an
engineer as well as recording a number of singles in Jamaica, amongst them "Righteous Man" by
Little Roy, later
emigrating to
The Bronx,
New York, in the 1970s. Here he founded the ''Wackie's House Of Music'' record store, and behind this shop-front was the first significant reggae studio and label in the United States. Barnes also recorded the group
Aksumites, including recordings by Andrew McCalla and Joe
Aksumite, two of the group members who have recorded with him since the inception of Wackie's House of Music, and during the late 1970s and early 1980s he produced artists such as
Horace Andy,
Sugar Minott,
Junior Byles,
Roland Alphonso,
Tyrone Evans, and
Lee "Scratch" Perry. ==References==