Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Grace Latoya Hamilton (born 6 August 1982), [1] known professionally as Spice, is a Jamaican dancehall recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Dancehall" and credited as one of the most influential female Jamaican artists of all time, she is recognised as one of the most prominent dancehall artists in the world.
Marion Hall, formerly known by the stage name Lady Saw, is a Jamaican singer and songwriter whose career has spanned over two decades.Formerly known as the Queen of Dancehall, she is known for her guest appearance on No Doubt's "Underneath It All," which went triple Platinum and won a Grammy for No Doubt.
Among other opportunities for street dancing and parties, Passa Passa was also the location for the queering of the masculine Jamaican identity. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many Dancehall/Reggae songs started to espouse homophobic rhetoric, such as T.O.K.’s “Chi Chi Man,” while male dance crews were beginning to explode in ...
The song was a hit in these regions, [2] as well as in some parts of the Caribbean and Central America. It is also one of the most watched dancehall videos on YouTube with over 238 million views as of February 2022. [3] Other songs include "Whine & Kotch" Feat. J Capri, "Girlfriend" , "Bike Back", and "Hoist & Wine".
Mad Michelle (real name Ann Marie McKoy) is a Jamaican dancer who was crowned Dancehall Queen in 2003. [1] [2] She is among several dancers claiming to have originated the popular Dutty Wine dance. [2] McKoy was born in Jamaica. She was a model and choreographer before winning the Dancehall Queen competition in 2003. [3]
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. [4] [5] Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s.
In the wake of the popularity of daggering, in 2009 the Jamaican government enacted a radio and TV ban on songs and videos with blatantly sexual content. [2] The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation defines daggering as "a colloquial term or phrase used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry' sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the ...
Dancehall pop is a sub-genre of the Jamaican genre dancehall that originated in the early 2000s. [1] Developing from the sounds of reggae , dancehall pop is characteristically different in its fusion with western pop music and digital music production. [ 2 ]