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Sister Nancy - Bam Bam

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 1,731 Views / 0 Likes

Sister Nancy is one of the first, if not the first, female deejay to get a start on a sound system. Born Ophlin Russell, 41 years ago, Sister Nancy grew up in the Tavern area of Papine in St Andrew. Her entry in the music business dates back to 1977, when
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Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 3,621 Views / 0 Likes

Ring The Alarm is the title of one of the classic dancehall tunes of all time. Written and performed by the late Tenor Saw (b. Clive Bright, 1966, Kingston, JA), released in 1985 at the start of the Jamaican recording industry's digital revolution, it bec
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Iration Steppas - Mistikal Warrior

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,301 Views / 0 Likes

Mark Iration speaks in a booming voice; his dub roots sound system prides itself on being one of the very best and certainly one of the loudest in Europe; and the man even writes in capital letters. Everything about his is about giving his all. The sound
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Jah Mason - Mi Chalwa

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Born in Manchester, Jamaica, reggae singer Jah Mason made his debut in 1991 with the single “Selassie I Call We.” Recorded for Junior Reid’s record label, the single appeared under the name Perry Mason, a nickname Mason had picked up during his childhood
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Sugar Minott - Oh Mr Dc

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Sugar Minott (born Lincoln Barrington Minott, May 25, 1956, in Kingston) is a jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator known for his sweet roots dancehall style.Sugar Minott spent his youth hanging around the legendary “Studio 1” listeni
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Stereotyp - Keepin' Me

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,233 Views / 1 Likes

Stefan Mörth, known as Stereotyp, is a producer of club music who spends most of his time in the studio, touring seldom. He resides in Vienna, Austria, and travels often to New York City. Stereotyp’s music is generally bass-heavy, and reaches into danceha
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Dub Incorporation - My Freestyle

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,586 Views / 0 Likes

Dub Incorporation is a French Reggae band which was founded in 1997. They sing their songs in French and partially in Arabic. The band comes from St. Etienne/France. There they started their career, but in the meantime they are further sucessfull in, for
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Lyricson - Night and Day

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,500 Views / 1 Likes

Lyricson (real name Soulemane Boukara) is a singer of Reggae New roots and Dancehall of Guinean origin residing in France. Lyricson was born in Guinea, his mother was nurse in Liberia during the civil war. He would have been incarcerated for adulterates o
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Alborosie - Kingston Town

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Alberto Dascola aka Alborosie is an Italian reggae singer, deejay and producer based in Kingston, Jamaica. He was born in Sicily in 1977 and in 1993, he formed a reggae band in Italy called Reggae National Tickets. He produced his biggest hit ‘Herbalist’
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Eek-A-Mouse - Wa do dem

by Erdem Added 8 years ago 5,608 Views / 2 Likes

Eek-a-Mouse (born Ripton Hylton November 19, 1957 in Kingston, Jamaica) is one of Jamaica’s premier reggae stars. He is responsible for the creation of the reggae sub-genre singjaying. Although now 50 years old, he is still reputed to perform more than 20
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Yellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

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“King” Yellowman as he is known, is one of the most popular reggae artists to have come from Jamaica. Born as Winston Foster in 1959, in Kingston, Jamaica, he was also an alumnus of the Alpha Boy’s school where many reggae artists and musicians got their
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Barrington Levy - Murderer

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THEM A VAMMPAAAYAAABarrington Levy (born April 30, 1964) is a reggae and dancehall artist. He was born in Clarendon, Jamaica and soon formed a band with his cousin, Everton Dacres, called the Mighty Multitude; the pair released “My Black Girl” in 1977. Le
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Buju Banton - Boom Bye Bye

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Buju Banton (born Mark Myrie 1973) is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae singer. He was born in a slum near Kingston, Jamaica called Salt Lane. “Buju” is a nickname given to chubby children which means Breadfruit. The name is ironic in light of Mark
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Barrington Levy - Bounty Hunter

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He is from kingston jamaica, da original bounty HUNTAAABarrington Levy (born April 30, 1964) is a reggae and dancehall artist. He was born in Clarendon, Jamaica and soon formed a band with his cousin, Everton Dacres, called the Mighty Multitude; the pair
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Chaka Demus - Spirit

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Chaka Demus (born John Taylor in 1965, West Kingston, Jamaica) is a well known reggae musician and deejay, best known for a string of hits which enjoyed chart success in the 1990s, in both his native Jamaica and around the world. He is best known for the
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Dawn Penn - You don't love me

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Dawn Penn (born Dawn Pickering, 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer.In 1967 she recorded and had released the rocksteady single “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)”, produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One.In 1970, she left the music indust
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Welton Irie - Army Life

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Jamaican Full Metal JacketWelton Dobson, 1960, Jamaica, West Indies. Welton began his career performing as, simply, Welton, toasting for Big John’s Stereophonic Sound (later known as Echo Tone Hi Fi) from 1976 till 1981. He initially emulated his hero Ran
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Damian Marley,Bounty Killer & Eek A Mouse - Khaki Suit

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Bounty Killer, aka Rodney Basil Price, was born 12.06.1972 in Riverton City, Downtown Kingston. He gradually worked his way out of poverty by djaying, through which his lyrical capabilities surfaced. 1996 marked his international breakthrough with ‘My X-P
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Michigan & Smiley - Rub A Dub Style

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,105 Views / 0 Likes

Michigan and Smiley were a Jamaican singing combo of the late seventies first wave of Dancehall music, founded by Papa Michigan (born Anthony Fairclough) and General Smiley (born Erroll Bennett) and included Yellowman, Eek-A-Mouse, Lone Ranger, General Ec
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General Echo - Arlene

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,074 Views / 0 Likes

General Echo, a top reggae deejay of the late 1970’s, created a signature style of chatting nearly 100% explicit sexual content (now known as “slackness”) in dancehall reggae music, paving the way for future jamaican superstars such as Shabba Ranks and Ki
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Anthony B - Nah Run From People

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Anthony B is the stage name of Keith Blair (born March 31, 1976), a Jamaican musician.Blair grew up in rural Clarks Town in the northwestern parish of Trelawny. His deeply religious family life (his mother was a Seventh-day Adventist and his grandmother a
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Johnny Osbourne - We Need Love

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,657 Views / 0 Likes

Johnny Osbourne (born Errol Osbourne, 1948) is a popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer, who rose to success in the late 1970s and mid 1980s. His album Truths and Rights was a notable roots reggae success, and featured “Jah Promise” and the album’s
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Lone Ranger - Love Bump

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 1,859 Views / 1 Likes

Borrowing his stage name from the popular TV Western hero of the same name, the Lone Ranger was one of Jamaica’s most influential early dancehall DJs. He helped pioneer a newly rhythmic, on-the-beat rhyming style that led DJ toasting into the modern age,
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Half Pint - Greetings

by Erdem Added 10 years ago 2,369 Views / 0 Likes

Born Lindon Roberts, but affectionately called Half Pint, he is a product of the West Kingston enclave of Rose Lane, a community which has produced the likes of Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Toots Hibbert and a host of other i