# Prince Hammer

Beris Simpson, better known as prince hammer, is a Jamaican reggae deejay, singer, and record producer. == Biography == Simpson was born at the Jubilee Hospital in Kingston and grew up in a Christian family in Kingston.After deejaying on the Vee-Jay sound system in the early 1970s, Simpson initially recorded under his own name (as 'Berris Simpson') in the mid-1970s with producer Glen Brown for whom he recorded "Whole Lot of Sugar" and "Tel Aviv Rock", before adopting the 'prince hammer' name when he began producing his own recordings on labels that he owned such as Gold Cup and Belva, sold through his own record shop on Orange Street. He released several singles in the late 1970s for a variety of producers.