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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.
Earlan Bartley (born December 19, 1993), better known as Alkaline, is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica. [2] Known for entering the scene with an alluring perception heavily projected to his Jamaican audience and utilizing his stage name to represent the opposite principles of his personality correlating the dichotomy of positive and negative. [3]
Fathead was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and was already an established deejay when he began working with Yellowman, ... (the first ever live dancehall album), [2] ...
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.
Norman Washington Jackson (born 6 June 1960), [1] better known as Tiger, is a Jamaican dancehall musician active since the late 1970s. He is known for his growling style of deejaying , often imitated by other dancehall deejays since his initial rise to fame.
In her beginnings as a female dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name Lady Patra. Patra first made an impression on the US charts as a featured singer on the Shabba Ranks song, "Family Affair", which hit No. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1994.
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.
Leroy Russell Junior (born 4 November 1987), better known by his stage names Tommy Lee and Tommy Lee Sparta, is a Jamaican dancehall artist from Flankers, Montego Bay, Jamaica. [1] Tommy Lee Sparta gained popularity as a member of Adidjahiem Records and the associated Portmore Empire crew under the leadership of Vybz Kartel. [2]