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Willi One Blood

American musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ504001
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Willi One Blood (born William Robert Harbour) is a reggae singer and actor, formerly New York-based and now in Miami. He is best known for the song "Whiney Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)", from the soundtrack album of the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber, which peaked at number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Blood's acting credits include the films Léon: The Professional (1994) and Joe's Apartment (1996). His character in Léon is called "Blood" by Gary Oldman's Stansfield character, and "Willi Blood" by another antagonist, Malky; he is credited as "Stansfield's 1st man". Blood guest-starred in the New York Undercover episode "Catman Comes Back" (1995), and appeared as himself in the independent film Blazin' (2001).

He started his career in Kingston, Jamaica in 1988 where he performed on Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay. He went on to record several singles in Jamaica and collaborated with such artists as Tony Rebel, Dignitary Stylish, Half Pint and Jack Radics, to name a few.

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“Willi One Blood” enters the record as american musician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Willi, Blood and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1996, 1995, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-09-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Willi, Blood and American.
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“Willi One Blood” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Willi, Blood and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q504001. VIAF identifies the subject as 48967795. The Library of Congress control number is no2005089361. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1996, 1995 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from Willi One Blood” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.