The Regent Of Jamaican Music-Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd
Every transformation of music in Jamaica, from the early Ska days to the short period of Rock-Steady to Reggae to the later dancehall and...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
Jamaican Legend-Millie Small CD, passes on
Much has been made about the growth and impact of Ska as an indigenous music from Jamaica between 1961 and 1966 and along the way this...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
BoB & Marcia- "Young, Gifted and Black
In 1970 Bob Andy And Marcia Griffiths put out their rendition of the Nina Simone classic for Harry J Records in Kingston and later...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
IVAN CHIN'S CALYPSO GROUP-The Heart of Early Mento
The Wizard Ivan Chin Somewhere around 1952/53 a group of musicians approached electronics wizard Ivan Chin at his store in Kingston to...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
VERE JOHNS TALENT CONTESTS- Where it all Started
In the mid-1950s almost every youth in Kingston it would appear, wanted to be a singer. As such, it was not uncommon to find bands of...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
KARTEL et al...GUILTY VERDICT STANDS
The trial of Adijah Palmer aka Vybz Kartel and his associates is now one for the history books as its second stanza was concluded in a...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
THE NIGHT TROJAN KILLED COXSONE...
The event took place on a Monday night...but it started long before. Coxsone was a much younger man than Trojan's Duke Reid, but his...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 5 min
BOB ANDY HAS GONE HOME.
Bob Andy transited this life earlier today at home in Kingston Jamaica. He was 76 years old. Bob Andy (born Keith Anderson) emerged as a...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
THE SOUND SYSTEM MOVEMENT (1950s THE EARLY YEARS)
The Sound System's Humble Beginnings With the end of the War in 1945, thousands of rural Jamaicans trekked into Kingston in search of...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 4 min
Arrows International (Hi-Fi) Sound System
I grew up in the Mountain View Avenue area of Eastern Kingston, Jamaica where the lower half of Mountain View Avenue just below Jacques...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 4 min
JAMAICA'S SOUND SYSTEM PIONEER DUKE REID- Part 1
One of the most important elements in the growth and development of the Jamaican Music Industry is the Sound System and one of its...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
JAMAICA'S SOUND SYSTEM PIONEER DUKE REID- Part 2
Between 1959 and 1962 Duke Reid’s recording output was buffeted by the likes of Derrick Morgan and The Jiving Juniors with Derrick...
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Yaawd Media
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
JAMAICA'S RECORDING INDUSTRY- The Early Years.
It was the competition led growth among the raft of Sound Systems that ultimately opened up the interest in Jamaica's Recording Industry...
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