Margaret Anderson, better known as The Ranking Miss P, is a British

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and DJ.

Biography

After leaving school, Miss P studied to become a teacher, but was persuaded by her brother Leroy Anderson (DJ Lepke) to start broadcasting on his radio station

Dread Broadcasting Corporation Dread Broadcasting Corporation, also known as DBC, was a 1980s West London pirate radio station which is credited as Britain's first black music pirate radio station. History It broadcast from the Neasden and Ladbroke Grove areas, and was fou ...

in 1979. The station is regarded as the first British

black music Black music is a sound created, produced, or inspired by black people, people of African descent, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including Caribbean music, Lati ...

radio station. Both Miss P and Lepke are the younger siblings of

Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ...

's wife

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. In 1983, Miss P was approached by

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to compose and perform visual promotional trails and the theme song for its weekly magazine programme ''Ebony''. On 31 March 1985, she began presenting a weekly

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

show ''Culture Rock'' on

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on Sunday nights. This was Radio 1's first ever show dedicated solely to reggae music, and Miss P was one of the station's first black presenters. Her entire show on 12 May 1985 was a tribute to the life and music of Bob Marley. She left BBC Radio 1 in 1990 and went on to present a programme titled ''Riddim and Blues'' on

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on Saturday nights, in which she played a wide variety of black music. Miss P has two sons and a daughter.

References

External links

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Archived BBC page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ranking Miss P English people of Jamaican descent British radio DJs Pirate radio personalities BBC Radio 1 presenters Black British radio presenters Living people 1959 births