Henry was born in Jamaica , educated in London England spent most of his younger days enjoying South Benfleet near Canvy Island. At the age of 26 , Henry formed his first Band called the Virgin in the seventies.
After the group disbanded and a shot solo career, a chance meeting with then Producer and Label CEO Eddy Grant (The Equals), would guide the course of Henry’s musical career. It was a collaboration effort with Hugh Francis, Delford Davis Winston Henry, and Webster Dyer that would form the Band 90Degrees inclusive, Henry introduced the Band to Eddy Grant and through Eddy, the the band would be then signed to Marco Music, Phonogram and later with Virgin Records.
At the end of a major tour in Trinidad with Eddy Grant Ninty Degrees Inclusive hit the chart with Revolution Henry left the Bandin the late seventies. Henry is now taking his career to another level as a solo artist and a Producer. Henry is not only producing music for his new album,but he is also producing and arranging music with an array of other fine artists and musicians such as
Started in the music industry in 1968 working for The Essex Music Group, who were music publishers for a majority of pop musicians at that time. My role was music librarian, which also involved recording demonstration songs for up and coming artist and songwriters. Some of the following artists who launched their careers from there, such as; Joe Cocker, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, T Rex and many more.
1971 I started a sound engineering apprenticeship at Olympic Studios, which was a major world famous independent studio at the time. Became a freelance sound engineer in 1978.
Worked in many genres of music at various UK recording studios, with acts such as; The Rolling Stones, Mick Taylor (ex Rolling Stone guitarist), Fairport Convention, The Stranglers, Adam and The Ants, Dennis Brown, Eka Mouse, Mikey Dread, Jimmy Cliff (Live in Lyon France) and many more.
In 1980 – 1981 worked at Semp Studios in Port of Spain Trinidad with Lord Kitchener and various Soca musicians.
Latter 80’s worked as chief sound engineer for Ebusia Records in Swaziland South Africa. During my time there, I did some live sound engineering for various local bands in, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
I have been involved with Henry Barnes and Cougar Records despite my travelling, since 1979 until present day.
Saul started playing guitar as a teenager and recorded with many top South African Bands. He also loves to play football, He joined a famous musical IPI Ntombi and had a world tour with the group, which was based in London's West End for 8 years.
He then left London to continue his career in New York City, jamming with top SA musicians. New challenges have taken him from NYC to Houston Texas, the birth place of his musician daughter. She is now working with top musicians including Quincy Jones. After few sessions in Houston, Saul moved again, this time his fate has taken him to North Hollywood, where he met and recorded with Caiphus Semeny, who did a lot of work with Quincy Jones. Paralelly he was active as recording Engineer at Sound Master Recording Engineer School in North Hollywood Ca and has been writing an producing my music and other musicians ever since.
In London Saul met one musician, named Ade Sose, and helped to produce his album. It was in that session, Benny King, the engineer, has in turn introduced him to Barney. They became very good friends and this friendship is reflected in joyful unification of talents on the Murder Album, where Saul provided the backing vocals on Lady T.
