Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka

male
Jah Shaka has been operating a London-based roots reggae soundsystem since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rasta term for God...
Count Ossie

Count Ossie

male, deceased (1976)
Count Ossie, born Oswald Williams, (1926, St. Thomas, Jamaica - 18 October 1976) was a Jamaican drummer and band leader. As a young boy Ossie grew...
Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

male, 51 years old
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Cole's Hill, Birmingham, England) is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well...

Sam Brown

male, deceased (1998)
Ras Sam Brown was born on 16 December 1925 and died in August 1998 while attending an international trade fair in Barbados. He was a Jamaican...

Harry Mudie

male, 69 years old
Harry A. Mudie (born c. 1940 in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican record producer. Harry Mudie attended to the St Jago High School. In the mid...
Helene Lee

Helene Lee

female
Helene Lee is a French journalist who specialises in Jamaican and West African music. She started as a journalist in 1979 for Libération and was o...
Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

male, 68 years old
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz...
Detsl

Detsl

male, 26 years old
Detsl (Detzl, Russian: Децл [sometimes as ДеЦл], real name Kirill Tolmatskiy [Кирилл Толмацкий]; born July 22, 1983) is a Russian rapper and hip...

Kate Garner

female, 56 years old
Kate Garner (born 9 July 1954, Wigan, Lancashire) is an English singer and photographer. Garner was one third of the trio of 1980s avant-garde, new...
Paul Caplin

Paul Caplin

male, 54 years old
Paul Caplin (born 31 December 1954 in London) started his musical career in New Romantic rock group Animal Magnet, which had a minor dance hit in...