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Avvy – Inagua, Bahamas recording artist; Baha Men; Sebastian Bach – Canadian heavy metal singer, born in Freeport, Bahamas; Ronnie Butler; Exuma "King" Eric Gibson – (c. 1934 – 2013) calypso music; Blake Alphonso Higgs – goombay, calypso music; Johnny Kemp – Bahamian singer, later Harlem, New York City; Angelique Sabrina; Joseph Spence
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Etta Cameron – jazz singer; based in Denmark; frontrunner of the Danish 1970s and 1980s music scene; Wendy Coakley-Thompson – writer; author of the novels Back to Life (2004) and What You Won't Do for Love (2005)
Stanley Burnside (born 1947), Bahamian cartoonist, painter, and costume designer; he penned the Sideburns editorial cartoon for The Nassau Guardian; Raymond Roker, American graphic designer, electronic music DJ, and club promoter; of Bahamian and Jewish descent. Gio Swaby (born 1991), textile artist and designer
Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey (18 February 1942 – 25 January 1997), known professionally as Tony McKay and Exuma, was a Bahamian musician, artist, playwright, and author best known for his music that blends folk, rock, carnival, junkanoo, calypso, reggae, and African music stylings.
The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with Junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day. Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony. Groups like The Baha Men , Ronnie Butler ,Kirkland Bodie and Twindem have gained massive popularity in Japan, the United States and other places.
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Kemp began singing in nightclubs in the Bahamas at age 13. [3] He moved to Harlem, New York in 1979 [3] with the band Kinky Fox. In the early 1980s, Kemp became a successful session musician and songwriter, singing backup for the B. B. & Q. Band on their 1982 album All Night Long (on which he co-wrote several tracks) and for Change on their 1982 album Sharing Your Love (on which he co-wrote ...