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Arif Cooper (died 5 March 2023) was a Jamaican musician, music producer, and international DJ. He was the CEO of Fresh Ear Productions/AMC Music Ltd., as well as a radio broadcaster for the RJR Communications Group (FAME FM).
NewsTalk 93 FM: 93.7 MHz: News, Talk RJR 94 FM: 94.1- 94.7 MHz: Talk, News, Caribbean Music, Reggae Music Fame FM: 95.7 MHz: Reggae, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Pop Kool 97 FM: 97.1 MHz: Caribbean Music Mega Jamz 98 FM: 98.7 MHz: Top 40 Bess 100 FM: 100.5 MHz: Top 40 Love 101 FM: 101.1- 101.7 MHz: News, Talk, Gospel Zip 103 FM: 103.0 MHz: Caribbean ...
In 1953, Jamaica became the first of the British colonies in the Caribbean to offer FM broadcasting when RJR began using the technology. By 1954, there were over 57,000 rediffusion boxes distributed throughout the country. [1] In 1959 Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded as a public broadcasting corporation operated by the government ...
DJ Kool Herc, known as the Father of Hip-Hop, was responsible for importing many of the elements of Jamaican sound system culture to New York. Having immigrated with his family to the Bronx from Kingston at the age of 12, Herc grew up around dancehall parties, and despite being too young to enter, he would hang out outside the parties and ...
Music of Jamaica; List of Jamaican backing bands This page was last edited on 6 May 2024, at 21:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Inspired by the big sound systems that he had visited in his youth such as those run by Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster, and particularly King Tubby's Home Town Hi-Fi, which featured the DJ U-Roy, and the Kentone sound system featuring DJ Pampado, Smith teamed up with two friends, Lizzy and Samuel the First, to set up his own "El Paso" sound system in 1969.
Livingston Allen, better known as DJ Akademiks (or simply Akademiks, also by his stage name Lil AK), is a Jamaican-American podcaster, internet personality and live streamer. DJ Akademiks rose to fame for his YouTube channel which covered recent news in the music industry—particularly hip-hop.
Waldron spent much of his youth in Tottenham, [1] United Kingdom, before returning to Jamaica in 1971. He began his recording career with Clement "Coxsone" Dodd 's Studio One label. [ 2 ] He initially worked as a duo with Welton Irie , but soon began recording solo, having a big hit in Jamaica with "Love Bump". [ 2 ]