Capleton Capleton (born Clifton George Bailey III on 13 April 1967 in Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a reggae and dancehall artist. He is also referred to as King Shango, King David, The Fireman and The Prophet.

His record label, office, and home for his direct supporters is called David House Productions.

In 1989 he got his first big international exposure. Stewart Brown, owner of a Toronto-based sound called African Star, gave the untested artist his first break, flying him to Canada for a stage show alongside giants like Ninjaman and Flourgan. The appreciation of the audience inspired Capleton; he never looked back.

When Capleton first arrived on the scene in the late 1980s, the dancehall was a very different place than it is today. Slackness and gun talk were the order of the day. The present day Rasta Capleton announced his promising arrival with a string of hit songs from "Bumbo Red" to "Number One on the Look Good Chart" and "Woman We Lotion". Everything he touched hit the charts, and established himself as a Dancehall hitmaker.

On his return to Jamaica he did the song that began to establish his significant place in Dancehall, "Alms House" in 1992. The tune became a big hit in the dancehall, followed up immediately by "Music is a Mission" and "Tour".

In the early 1990s there was a trend away from what were termed as slack songs; these made up almost the entire Dancehall industry; to more conscious, roots oriented songs. Unlike other artists that tried to totally detach themselves for their previous music, Capleton preferred to acknowledge and, later, incorporate his already established 'slack' songs, e.g. "Bumbo Red", in his thesis of consciousness.

He has routinely used lyrics from his music before the 1990s to explain his view about controversial points raised in the Jamaican music industry.