Widely revered for his influence on dub music and music production in general, King Tubby was born Osbourne Ruddock in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1941. Starting his own pirate radio station and sound system in the 1960s, Tubby began working as a disc cutter for producer Duke Reid in 1968. Asked to produce instrumental versions of reggae tracks for toasters and MCs, Tubby began to treat those instrumentals with the echo and reverb effects he was using for his sound system gigs. By the early 70s Tubby had started his own studio, famously using his mixing board as an instrument in its own right and producing for many of Jamaica's top artists including Cornell Campbell, Horace Andy, and Delroy Wilson. On February 6, 1989, King Tubby was shot and killed outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio. It is thought that the murder was probably an attempt at robbery.