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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Jun 7, 2013 |
| The ‘Crown Prince Of Reggae’, Dennis Emanuel Brown, was Jamaican music’s most consistently popular performer. Many artists achieve fame and adulation after their death but Dennis Brown earned an unparalleled amount of love and devotion during his life time. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: May 24, 2013 |
| Although his bass guitar beat at the heart of reggae music for over twenty years Boris Gardiner still remains a relatively unknown figure although he has contributed much more to the music than many other far more celebrated performers. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: May 10, 2013 |
| One of the most important and influential stylistic and artistic innovators of the second half of the twentieth century… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Apr 12, 2013 |
| One of the first Jamaican record producers to enjoy overseas hits Harry J went on to make the most of his international connections. His state of the art recording complex on Roosevelt Avenue was the studio of choice throughout the seventies for the musicians and artists who followed his lead in taking reggae music out of Kingston’s ghettos and onto the worldwide stage. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Apr 4, 2013 |
| The personification and epitome of musical and sartorial cool Derrick Morgan’s story recounts the growth of Jamaican music into the phenomenon that took the world by storm in the mid-seventies. |
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