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The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including “Guns...
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Adidja Azim Palmer (born 7 January 1976), better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall recording artist, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and convicted murderer. Among his various nicknames, he...
Chalice is a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1980 in Gibraltar Hill, St. Mary. Chalice is probably best known for their performances at the Reggae Sunsplash music festival. The...
JIMMY REID When Jimmy Reid received rave reviews for his vocal talent at school and church, perhaps nobody knew then that he was laying...
In a landmark development for Jamaican broadcasting, Richie B Radio, a division of Richburg Broadcasting Ltd., has announced a new partnership with BESS 100FM....
The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including “Guns...
Lee was born in Christiana, Manchester Parish, Jamaica, to a Chinese-Jamaican mother Evelyn Chung and a Chinese father Oscar Lee (a language teacher) originally from Kowloon, Hong Kong.[2] The family...
The Clarendonians were originally Fitzroy “Ernest” Wilson and Peter Austin (who would also record as part of The Soul Lads), both from Hayes in Clarendon Parish, the...
Willie Lindo’s career in reggae music has spanned the past thirty-five years, during which he was a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer. In the mid-1970s,...
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
The vocal trio was originally formed in 1968 by Bernard Collins and Donald Manning.Their first song was “Satta Massagana“, which was strongly influenced by...
John Lester Nash Jr. (August 19, 1940 – October 6, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit “I...
Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who greatly influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and...
Arthur “Duke” Reid CD (21 July 1915 – 1 January 1975) was a Jamaican record producer, DJ and label owner. He ran one of the most popular sound systems of the 1950s called Reid’s Sound...
William Alexander Anthony “Bunny Rugs” Clarke OD (6 February 1948 – 2 February 2014), also known as Bunny Scott, was the lead singer of Jamaican reggae band Third World as well as...
