Daily Archives: February 16, 2014

Meet Etana – “The Strong One”

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Etana, born Shana Mckenzie on May 22, 1983 in Kingston, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Etana is a Swahili word from West Africa which means “The Strong One”.   Career In 2007 while working with reggae singer Richie Spice as a backup vocalist, she recorded and released her first single “Wrong Address” which quickly rose to number one in […]

Traditional Music of Jamaica

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The traditional folk forms of music in Jamaica was greatly influenced by the traditional drumming and singing by the enslaved Africans. They have also been influenced to varying degrees by the music of the other cultures with which they have come in contact. Some of the most popular traditional forms includes secular practices such as Bruckins, Jonkunnu, […]

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Dub

The Dub Genre 3

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By 1969, approximately one year after the birth of Reggae music, Jamaica had developed a new art form known as Dub. Dub emerged when studio engineers began to remix the B sides of reggae vinyl records by fading out the vocals and emphasising the instrumental texture of the song. The purpose was to allow disc jockeys (DJ) […]

Meet Yasus Afari

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Yasus Afari is a dub poet, reggae artiste and author, born John Sinclair in Ross Hall, St Elizabeth, Jamaica on September 4,1962. In April 2007 he launched his best selling book ”Overstanding Rastafari: Jamaica’s Gift to the World” at the University Of The West Indies In Kingston, Jamaica. On October 5, 2013 he launched  his latest […]

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