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This is a list of radio stations in Kingston, Jamaica. These are 16 radio stations in Kingston. FM Stations ... Sports, Reggae Music NewsTalk 93 FM: 93.7 MHz: News ...
[4] [5] [6] Campbell wasn't impressed that the JBC's playlists mainly consisted of bland, foreign pop music at a time when some of the most potent reggae was being recorded in Jamaica. He convinced his JBC bosses to give him his own radio program called Dread at the Controls, where he played almost exclusively reggae.
Reggae Sounds, derived from jamaican sound system is a term use to describe a group of reggae Disk jockeys in Kenya who provide entertainment mainly by hosting reggae related events and shows, first gained popularity in the 1990s with notable groups such as Omega Sounds, King Lions Sounds, Livity Sounds, Jahmbo Sounds, King Jahmbo Sounds and Shashamane Intl being among the first to be formed.
Livingston was born in St. Mary, Jamaica. [3] He grew up singing in church. [4] In high school at Trenchtown Cooperative, he heard Bob Marley perform. [5] He started a sound system "Fantastic Three" with Lone Ranger. [4] Tony Walcott discovered the sound system and invited Livingston and Lone Ranger to record with him. [6]
With their popularity steadily growing the group began performing at various events locally. Featuring at Spring Fest 2004, Fully Loaded and at Reggae Sumfest in 2004 and 2005. Voicemail by now had cemented their name in Jamaican Music history as the group to watch with their ever-evolving dance routines, permissive lyrics and keen fashion sense.
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.
Horatious Adolphus "Pat" Kelly (6 August 1944 – 16 July 2019) [1] was a prolific, influential Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and innovative, groundbreaking sound engineer working with King Tubby, Bunny Lee and Scientist (musician), whose career began in the mid-1960s. [2]
As a radio and television technician involved in the jukebox industry, he soon acquired his own sound system he named "GG". [1] By the mid-1960s, he opened his own TV repair shop in May Pen and started to produce records with artists such as Trevor Brown; and as a singer with Vernon Buckley (later of The Maytones ) as "Vern & Alvin" and with ...