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Junior Braithwaite

b. Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite, 4 Apr 1949, Kingston, Jamaica, Western Indies, d. 2 June 1999, Kingston, Jamaica, Western Indies. In 1963, Braithwaite became a member of causes with Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer as the 4th person in the Wailers, followed by two support performers Beverley Kelso …

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Lord Sassafrass

b. Michael Johnson, c.1963, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Ahead of his profession in music Sassafras was used at the driving stables in the Caymans Recreation area racecourse in Jamaica. A normal visitor towards the program was the entrepreneurial Jack port Scorpio who constructed his own well-known audio system in the …

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Junior Ross

b. Clifford Palmer, 7 Sept 1953, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Palmer started performing in the 70s for the DJ/manufacturer Tappa Zukie, who created, ‘Babylon Fall’. He continued to be with Zukie launching some hits in the DJ’s indie Stars label. Many of the recordings had been acknowledged to Junior …

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Stylo G

Dancehall MC Stylo G was created Jason McDermott in Jamaica’s Spanish City. The boy of Poison Chang as well as the sibling of Kodi Starr (Crazy Cousins), Stylo G shifted to London, Britain when he was 14. His initial significant discharge was “My Yout,” a grime-oriented monitor released in 2004 …

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Levi Roots

b. Keith Valentine Graham, 1958, Clarendon, Jamaica, Western Indies. Levi can be an affable guy that has softened the sector’s hardest critics along with his charismatic character. By age 12 Levi relocated in the united kingdom with his family members. He shortly became mixed up in local music picture, initially …

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The Uniques

The first version from the Uniques formed in 1966 when two members from the Techniques, Slim Smith and Franklyn White, joined with Roy Shirley to make a new group. The initial lineup recorded several ska edges for J.J. Johnson that yr before disbanding, and then reform again nearly immediately, this …

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Roy Cousins

Vocalist, songwriter, and maker Roy Cousins offers still left an indelible tag around the reggae picture. Given birth to in 1949 (by his personal reckoning, but 1945 relating to additional resources) in Cockburn Pencil, Jamaica, Cousins was just 13 when he created his 1st vocal group. The next year he …

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Walter Bishop, Sr.

Whenever a man names his son after himself and affixes a “junior” by the end, the act is frequently done to get a noble purpose, generally to greatly help discographers who are buried below mounds of details. Arbitrarily getting rid of the “junior” from, state, the name of bebop pianist …

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Errol Scorcher

b. Errol Archer, 1956, St. Catherine, Jamaica, Western Indies, d. 1982. Scorcher started his career like a DJ in the first 70s carrying out for several audio systems, where he cultivated his exclusive design. Although his debut, ‘Leggo Mi Hands’, was a crowd-pleaser in the dancehall, it didn’t achieve chart …

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Konshens

Jamaican dancehall reggae singer Konshens became a global superstar almost soon after bursting onto the music scene in 2005. Blessed Garfield Spence in Kingston in 1985, he promises Beres Hammond as his principal musical impact, and his vocal design is solid and confident however simple and melodic. His music range …

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