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Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel on Thursday won his appeal in a London court over his conviction for the murder of an associate more than a decade ago. The musician, whose real name is Adidja ...
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.
Leroy Russell Junior (born 4 November 1987), better known by his stage names Tommy Lee and Tommy Lee Sparta, is a Jamaican dancehall artist from Flankers, Montego Bay, Jamaica. [1] Tommy Lee Sparta gained popularity as a member of Adidjahiem Records and the associated Portmore Empire crew under the leadership of Vybz Kartel. [2]
Elephant Man is a father to at least 38 children. [1] His first biological child, was born when he was 17 years old. [2] In a February 2012 interview with Winford Williams of OnStage, he claimed to have had 20 different baby mothers at the time. [3]
In her beginnings as a female dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name Lady Patra. Patra first made an impression on the US charts as a featured singer on the Shabba Ranks song, "Family Affair", which hit No. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1994.
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.
The Jamaican dancehall group T.O.K. were among several artists who refused to sign the Reggae Compassionate Act. The Reggae Compassionate Act was an agreement [further explanation needed] signed in 2007 by artists including Beenie Man, Capleton, and Sizzla.