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Audrey Hall (born c. 1948 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer. ... This was followed up by "Smile" in 1986, which repeated her UK chart success [7] ...
Gyatt (/ ɡ j ɑː t / ⓘ) (also commonly spelled as Gyat) is a term from African-American Vernacular English originally used in exclamation, such as "gyatt damn".In the 2020s, the word experienced a semantic shift and gained the additional meaning of "a person, usually a woman, with large and attractive buttocks and sometimes an hourglass figure".
Smile Orange is a 1976 satirical film set in Jamaica.It follows the day-to-day life of Ringo, played by Carl Bradshaw, a smooth-talking waiter and con-man.The film explores the tourism industry in the Caribbean and seems to suggest there are similarities to slavery in that industry.
The Smile Jamaica Concert was a reggae concert held on 5 December 1976 at the National Heroes Park in Kingston, Jamaica, aimed at countering political violence. Bob Marley had agreed to perform, but, two days before the concert, he was shot in his home. He recovered and, with The Wailers, played a 90-minute set for the 80,000 people in attendance.
A string of singles in the 1990s had limited success (his 1995 single "Go to Hell", an attack on the Jamaican political system, was banned from the airwaves in his home country), but his 1999 hit "If Love So Nice" led to an album, Rise, recorded in the UK with Mafia & Fluxy.
In 2013, he had hits with "Smile Jamaica" and "Here Comes Trouble", and he toured the United Kingdom (including a BBC 1Xtra concert in Leeds) and the United States with his Zincfence Redemption Band. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In March 2013, he travelled to Kenya , where he has a large fanbase, as a Peace Ambassador during the country's general ...
In the 1960s, the Jamaican diaspora introduced rude boy music and fashion to the United Kingdom, which influenced the mod and skinhead subcultures. [10] [11] In the late 1970s, the term rude boy and rude boy fashions came back into use after the 2 tone band the Specials (notably with a cover of "A Message to You Rudy") and their record label 2 Tone Records instigated a brief but influential ...
Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...