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Earlan Bartley (born December 19, 1993), better known as Alkaline, is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica. [2] Known for entering the scene with an alluring perception heavily projected to his Jamaican audience and utilizing his stage name to represent the opposite principles of his personality correlating the dichotomy of positive and negative. [3]
Dancehall music, also called ragga, is a style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and '90s. It was also originally called Bashment music when Jamaican dancehalls began to gain popularity.
Spragga Benz - Jamaican dancehall ragga artist hailing from Kingston, Jamaica. Wayne Wonder - Jamaican reggae and R&B artist from Kingston, Jamaica. Lady Saw - Jamaican dancehall artist known as the first lady of dancehall. Tanya Stephens - Jamaican dancehall and reggae singer known as one of the genre's most influential artists.
Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music. Temple University Press. Philadelphia. Jahn, Brian and Tom Weber. Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age. Da Capo Press. Kingston. ISBN 0-306-80853-6; Robertson, Alan, Joe Harriott: Fire in his Soul. London: Northway Books, 2003. ISBN 0-9537040-3-3; Staple, Neville. Original Rude Boy. 2009 ...
In 2013 his song "Gun Shot a Fire" was featured in the official soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. In March 2014, he became an official brand ambassador for Pepsi. [8] In April 2016 he released the single "Bruk Off Yuh Back" and a remix by Chris Brown was released in 2017.
The dance halls of Jamaica in the 1950s and 1960s were home to public dances usually targeted at younger patrons. Sound system operators had big home-made audio systems (often housed in the flat bed of a pickup truck), spinning records from popular American rhythm and blues musicians and Jamaican ska and rocksteady performers.
Voicemail by now had cemented their name in Jamaican Music history as the group to watch with their ever-evolving dance routines, permissive lyrics and keen fashion sense. On July 18, 2006, the group released their first album "Hey" with VP Records which was an overwhelming success as it sold heavily both locally and internationally.
Shabba Ranks was born in Sturge Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in Seaview Gardens, Kingston. [4] [5]His father, Ivan Gordon, was a mason who died in 1990. [6] His mother, Constance "Mama Christie" Christie, remained in Seaview after Shabba's success, feeding the community with money sent from her son after his emigration.