Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaicanreggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him “The Crown Prince of Reggae”, and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.

After returning to Kingston, Jamaica, on the evening of 30 June 1999, he was rushed to Kingston’s University Hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest. Brown died the next day, the official cause of his death was a collapsed lung.