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Carlene Smith (born 1 May 1973), also known as Dancehall Queen Carlene, is a Jamaican former dancer and socialite. Beginning her career in the early 1990s, Smith is credited as Jamaica 's first Dancehall Queen .
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.
A Dancehall Queen is a female celebrity in the musical genre called dancehall. [1] [page needed] She is known for her charisma, latest dance moves, and sexy fashion sense.. The tradition originated in Jamaican dancehall parties in the ghettos, seeking the best local female dan
The following year, she appeared on the Two Culture Clash project, where she was featured on the album's lead single, "How Do You Love" featuring fellow reggae artist, Danny English. Her fourth studio album, Where I've Been , was released in 2005, preceded by the single "Man Dem Thriller" and released through the independent record label , Wall ...
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. [1]
Dancehalls are used to communicate messages of women's power and control in a protest against their gendered experience embedded in Jamaican culture. Danger, a dancehall queen and the winner of the International Dancehall Queen Competition in 2014, expresses her power through dancehalls as she explains: "We are queens, we are not afraid to go ...
Under the nickname of Junko Bashment, aged 24 in April 2002, she became the first non-Jamaican, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, to win the official female dance tournament for "dancehall reggae" music and took the $50,000 prize, [1] and as a consequence took the title of "Dancehall Queen", after two years of practice and a background in classical ballet. [2]
Dancehall Queen is a 1997 indie Jamaican film written by Suzanne Fenn, Ed Wallace and Don Letts, starring Audrey Reid, who plays Marcia, a street vendor struggling to raise a bad-tempered daughter, Tanya (Cherine Anderson). Directed by Don Letts and Rick Elgood.