Bounty KillerRodney Basil Price (born 12 June 1972), known as Bounty Killer, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehalldeejay. AllMusic describes him as "one of the most aggressive dancehall stars of the '90s, a street-tough rude boy with an unrepentant flair for gun talk". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential dancehall lyricists of all time. BiographyEarly life and careerPrice moved to Kingston at an early age, along with his mother and siblings.
Roots reggaeNationalistic and patriotic songs Regional musicAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaAruba and the Dutch AntillesBahamasBarbadosBelizeBermudaBonaireCayman IslandsCubaCosta RicaCuraçaoDominicaDominican RepublicGrenadaGuadeloupeGuyanaHaitiMauritiusMartiniqueMontserratPanamaPuerto RicoSt Kitts and NevisSt LuciaSt Vincent and GrenadinesSurinameTrinidad and TobagoTurks and CaicosVirgin IslandsRoots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of Africans and those in the African Diaspora, including the spiritual side of Rastafari, black liberation, revolution and the honouring of God, called Jah by Rastafarians.
Buju BantonMark Anthony Myrie (born 15 July 1973), known professionally as Buju Banton, is a Jamaican Reggae and dancehall musician. He is one of the most significant and well-regarded artists in Jamaican music. Banton has collaborated with many international artists, including those in the hip-hop, Latin and punk rock genres, as well as the sons of Bob Marley.RiddimIn Jamaican dancehall music, a riddim is the instrumental accompaniment to a song and is synonymous with the rhythm section and of a song's "groove" in its bass and low drum parts. Jamaican music genres that use the term consist of the riddim plus the voicing (vocal part) sung by the deejay. A given riddim, if popular, may be used in dozens—or even hundreds—of songs, not only in recordings but also in live performances.RaggaRaggamuffin music (or simply ragga) is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music with heavy use of sampling. Wayne Smith's "Under Mi Sleng Teng", produced by King Jammy in 1985 on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer, is a seminal ragga song. "Sleng Teng" boosted Jammy's popularity immensely, and other producers quickly released their own versions of the riddim, accompanied by dozens of different vocalists.
Beenie ManMoses Anthony Davis (born 22 August 1973), known professionally as Beenie Man, is a Jamaican dancehall DJ. His awards include DJ of the Year Award eight years in a row. His twelfth studio album Art and Life received a Grammy Award in 2001.
Popular musicPopular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. As a kind of popular art, it stands in contrast to art music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings.
Jamaican PatoisJamaican Patois (; locally rendered Jumiekan Patwah or Patwa and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an Caribbean English-based creole language with substantial admixture from predominantly West African languages, and some forms of Arawak, Spanish, French and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.ReggaeReggae ( ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also refers to the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. The 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals titled "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.
Jamaican diasporaThe Jamaican diaspora refers to the body of Jamaicans who have left the country of Jamaica, their descendants, and to a lesser extent the subsequent developments of their culture.Jamaican EnglishJamaican English, including Jamaican Standard English, is the variety of English native to Jamaica and is the official language of the country. A distinction exists between Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois (a creole language), though not entirely a sharp distinction so much as a gradual continuum between two extremes. Jamaican English tends to follow British English spelling conventions.
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