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- A colourful figure who grappled with mental instability (he was institutionalized after murdering his girlfriend and died in confinement), Drummond was the central musician of the era, as essential to the development of ska as Marley was to reggae.
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Ska (/ s k ɑː /; Jamaican:) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues .
May 17, 2024 · Jimmy James obituary. ska, Jamaica’s first indigenous urban pop style. Pioneered by the operators of powerful mobile discos called sound systems, ska evolved in the late 1950s from an early Jamaican form of rhythm and blues that emulated American rhythm and blues, especially that produced in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Apr 25, 2019 · “Third wave to me, and I suspect a lot of other people, is their first taste of ska music,” says Alfredo Barrios, who plays trumpet in Los Angeles ska-rocksteady group The Steady 45s, who have ...
- Jessica Lipsky
Jun 2, 2021 · Gie Knaeps/Getty Images. The ska style known as 2 tone developed in the late 1970s and early '80s in England. According to SF Gate, while reggae was exploding in Jamaica, the popularity of new wave in the U.K. made nostalgia for '60s ska fashionable, and British bands picked it up (pun intended).
- Lauren Lavin
Jun 2, 2006 · The Jamaican native, who died last week in London at age 63, was one of the first popular artists to perform his island's local sounds for a world audience. His international success helped fuel...
Sep 8, 2016 · The ska pioneer Prince Buster, who shaped the course of Jamaican music, has died at the age of 78. He died at home in Miami at 07:20 local time (11:20 GMT) on Thursday. Born in Kingston, Jamaica,...
A more rock-oriented take on ska became popular in the U.S. during the '90s, although it was much farther removed from the music's Jamaican origins than the British version had been. Desmond Dekker. The Skatalites. The Gladiators. Toots & the Maytals. Millie Small. Tommy McCook. Jackie Mittoo. Bob Marley.
