January 14, 2023
Biography
Ruler Tubby would be to today synonymous with dub. He was a guy who got a interest for fiddling with sound tools, and converted that passion right into a brand-new musical genre along with a veritable talent. He may have got started his profession being a repairman, but before he …
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January 14, 2023
Biography
King Jammy, given birth to Lloyd Wayne in Kingston, Jamaica, was the undisputed ruler of computerized digital reggae music through the ’80s. Thinking about little else however the audio system business from an extremely early age group, he began because they build amplifiers and restoring electrical tools from his mother’s …
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January 13, 2023
Biography
For Ini Kamoze, the street to success continues to be arduous and he has undergone many substantial adjustments musically and physically since he burst onto the music picture in 1983 along with his highly effective eponymous debut album for Island. Referred to as “The Hotstepper,” Kamoze advocates transformation through what …
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January 8, 2023
Biography
b. Keith Sterling-Mcleod, January 1952, Kingston, Jamaica, Western Indies. Sterling originates from a musical family members and his old brothers possess all been mixed up in Jamaican recording sector. Lester performed alto saxophone within the Skatalites, Roy was a trumpeter with Lynn Tait AS WELL AS THE Jets and Gladstone …
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January 4, 2023
Biography
b. 13 January 1946, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Boris Gardiner, bass participant, vocalist and musical movie director, hasn’t been among reggae’s most celebrated brands, but he provides remained a long lasting fixture within the music and it has three main UK chart strikes to his credit. His bass-playing abilities …
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January 3, 2023
Biography
b. Robert Dixon, Kingston, Jamaica, Western Indies. Dixon was presented with the name ‘Digital’ because he attained Ruler Jammy’s in 1985 at exactly the same time that Steely And Clevie had been tinkering with computerized rhythms. Because of Jammy’s tuition, he discovered dub-cutting, carrying on a heritage began by the …
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January 1, 2023
Biography
The ball seldom bounced the talented Chantells’ way. Beset with personal complications, the Jamaicans’ laundry set of problems caused what might have been a guaranteeing career to get rid of abruptly. The Chantells’ — Samuel Bramwell, Tommy Thomas, and Lloyd Forrester — documenting output includes one recording (Waiting around in …
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December 25, 2022
Biography
b. North Platte, Nebraska, USA, d. 1987, Britain. The younger sibling of Glenn Miller, Natural herb too researched music at senior high school. While at university he performed trumpet, before acquiring his first work as business supervisor for Glenn’s music group. Nevertheless, his musical intuition soon got the greater of …
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December 24, 2022
Biography
Among the great dancehall and reggae makers, Gussie Clarke is a successful Jamaican maker because the early ’70s, when he helmed Big Youth’s debut, Screaming Focus on, as well as the 1973 debut from We Roy. Even more known in Britain than in the us, a lot of Clarke’s early …
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December 18, 2022
Biography
Sonia Pottinger isn’t just mostly of the women suppliers in Jamaica, but, also probably one of the most successful. Three of her productions had been included on a summary of best 100 Jamaican strikes ever published by Clinton Lindsay of WNWK-FM in NY. Joe White’s 1968 saving of “EVERY EVENING” …
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