 He attended Kingston College and on leaving formed The Fabulous Flames with friends, the group releasing their first single, "Holly Holy", in 1971.The group split up in the mid-1970s and Lovindeer began a solo career while living in Canada between 1976 and 1982.He returned to Jamaica and had hits in the 1980s with "Babylon Boops" (a response to Super Cat's "Boops"), "Don't Bend Down", and "Man Shortage", before having the biggest hit of his career with "Wild Gilbert".