Michael Campbell, better known as Mikey Dread, is a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. He was born in 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, West Indies. Mikey Dread displayed a natural talent for engineering and electronics. After he finished college, Campbell started out as an engineer with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation…
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The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including Guns of Navarone. They also played on records by Prince Buster and backed many other Jamaican artists who recorded during that period. They…
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What is a rude boy? What is a rude girl? What does ‘to be rude’ mean? Today, it simply means that you’re a dedicated member of the ska scene. If you have a good ska collection, if you dress up in a way that indicates that you like ska, if…
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Greetings from 18.2683° N, 78.3472° W, it’s 86° & Perfect …. Cool runnings ….
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Jamaica’s constant tropical climate helps to produce some very succulent and juicy fruits that grow year round. Fruits such as mango, June plum, sweet sop, soursop, ackee, tamarind, sugar cane, guava, Naseberry, Otaheite apples and star apples. Jamaican food includes popular dishes such as curry goat, ackee and saltfish, fried…
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Negril, Jamaica is a very small but widely dispersed beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes. Negril’s beach, also called Seven Mile Beach, has been rated as one of the top ten beaches in the world by many travel magazines. The sand is pure and white while…
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Once upon a time in 1984 I visited Jamaica for a week. The beautiful country and the people of Jamaica made a deep impression on me. Jamaicans have a warmth, a hospitality and an infectious joy they exhibit in everything they do. Their positive vibrations stuck with me for all…
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Generally, somewhat cheesy promotional merchandise for a band, record label, or other entity in the music business, usually distributed at concerts. May include t-shirts, stickers, promo CDs, posters, etc. Often free, but not necessarily; a t-shirt or record purchased at a concert might still be considered swag, especially if it…
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A potato chip or crisp is a thin slice of potato, deep fried or baked until crisp. Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. Commercial varieties are packaged for sale, usually in bags, sometimes in tubes. The simplest chips of this kind are just cooked and salted,…
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