Clement Seymour “Sir Coxsone” Dodd, CD (Kingston, Jamaica, January 26, 1932 – May 5, 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of Ska and Reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. When the R&B craze ended in the United States, Dodd and his rivals were forced to begin recording their own Jamaican music in order to meet the local demand for new music. In 1963 he opened Studio One on Brentford Road, Kingston. It was the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica (see 1963 in music). During the late 1960s and 1970s, the ‘Studio One [...]

SOUND SYSTEM PIONEER U-Roy as his most prominent deejay and with access to some of Treasure Isle Studios’ finest rocksteady rhythms, extraordinarily popular and U-Roy became a local celebrity. U-Roy, began as a sound system DJ in Jamaica in 1961, spinning records for the Doctor Dickies set, later known as Dickies Dynamic, in such well-known Jamaican venues as Victoria Pier, Foresters Hall and Emmett Park. U-Roy’s inspiration was the DJ Winston Count Machuki, who worked for Coxsone Dodd and subsequently on Prince Buster’s Voice Of The People sound system. By the mid-60s he was DJ for Sir George The Atomic, [...]