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Garnett Silk

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Garnett Silk (born Garnet Damion Smith; 2 April 1966 – 9 December 1994), was a Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, known for his diverse, emotive, powerful and smooth voice. [1]

43 relations: Aston Barrett, Atlantic Records, Black Scorpio, Bobby Digital (Jamaican producer), Buju Banton, Bunny Lee, Dancehall, Deejay (Jamaican), Derrick Morgan, Donovan Germain, Dub poetry, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Errol Brown, Greensleeves Records, Heartbeat Records, Hit single, Jet Star (record distribution company), Johnny Nash, King Jammy, King Tubby, Kingston, Jamaica, Macka B, Manchester Parish, Mandeville, Jamaica, Ocho Rios, Propane, Rastafari, Reggae, Reggae Sumfest, Reggae Sunsplash, Sly and Robbie, Sound system (Jamaican), Steely & Clevie, Sugar Minott, The Jamaica Observer, Tony Rebel, Tony Rebel Meets Garnett Silk in a Dancehall Conference, Trojan Records, Tuff Gong, Tyrone Downie, Uziah Thompson, VP Records, Yasus Afari.

Aston Barrett

Aston Francis Barrett (born 22 November 1946), often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican musician and Rastafarian.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Black Scorpio

Black Scorpio is a Jamaican sound system and record label run by Maurice "Jack Scorpio" Johnson.

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Bobby Digital (Jamaican producer)

This article is about the Jamaican reggae producer, for the American hip hop producer, see: RZA Robert "Bobby Digital" Dixon (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is an influential Jamaican reggae and dancehall producer.

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Buju Banton

Buju Banton (born Mark Anthony Myrie; 15 July 1973)Larkin, Colin (1998) "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", Virgin Books, is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae musician.

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Bunny Lee

Edward O'Sullivan Lee OD (born 23 August 1941), better known by the name Bunny "Striker" Lee, is a Jamaican record producer and one of the major forces in the Jamaican music industry.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Deejay (Jamaican)

In Jamaican music, a deejay (DJ) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.

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Derrick Morgan

Derrick Morgan (born 27 March 1940)Walters, Basil (2012) "", Jamaica Observer, 3 June 2012, retrieved 3 June 2012 is a musical artist popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Donovan Germain

Donovan Germain (born 7 March 1952 in Jamaica) is a reggae producer, one of the most successful of the digital era.

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Dub poetry

Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of West Indian origin, which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s,, Allmusic last on-line access in 9/17/2012.

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Earl "Chinna" Smith

Earl "Chinna" Smith (born 6 August 1955), a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest,Johnson, Richard (2013) "", Jamaica Observer, 6 October 2013.

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Errol Brown

Errol Brown MBE (12 November 1943 – 6 May 2015) was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate.

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Greensleeves Records

Greensleeves Records & Publishing is a record label specialising in dancehall and reggae music.

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Heartbeat Records

Heartbeat Records is an independent record label based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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Hit single

A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular.

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Jet Star (record distribution company)

Jet Star (formally Jet Star Phonographics Ltd.) was a United Kingdom record distribution company that grew out of Pama Records in 1978.

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Johnny Nash

John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. (born August 19, 1940) is an American reggae and pop music singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now".

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King Jammy

Lloyd James (born 26 October 1947, in Montego Bay, JamaicaBarrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter: "Reggae: The Rough Guide", 1997, Rough Guides), who is better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy, is a dub mixer and record producer.

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King Tubby

Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who greatly influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Macka B

Christopher MacFarlane, better known as Macka B, is a British-born Jamaican reggae artist, performer and activist with a career spanning thirty years in the United Kingdom and Jamaica.

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Manchester Parish

The Parish of Manchester is an administrative civil parish located in west-central Jamaica, in the county of Middlesex.

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Mandeville, Jamaica

Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.

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Ocho Rios

Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula C3H8.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Reggae Sumfest

Reggae Sumfest is the largest concert festival in Jamaica, taking place each year in mid-July in Montego Bay.

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Reggae Sunsplash

Reggae Sunsplash is a reggae music festival first staged in 1978 in the northern part of Jamaica.

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Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Steely & Clevie

Steely & Clevie was a Jamaican dancehall reggae production duo that was composed of members Wycliffe Johnson and Cleveland Browne.

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Sugar Minott

Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott (25 May 1956 – 10 July 2010)Campbell, Howard (2010) "", Associated Press, 11 July 2010, retrieved 2010-07-12Peru, Yasmine (2010) " ", Jamaica Observer, 12 July 2010, retrieved 2010-07-12 was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.

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The Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer Limited is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Tony Rebel

Patrick George Anthony Barrett (born 15 January 1962), better known by his stage name Tony Rebel, is a Jamaican reggae deejay.

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Tony Rebel Meets Garnett Silk in a Dancehall Conference

Tony Rebel Meets Garnett Silk in a Dancehall Conference is a collaboration studio album, by Tony Rebel and Garnett Silk.

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Trojan Records

Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.

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Tuff Gong

Tuff Gong is the brand name associated with a number of businesses started by Bob Marley and the Marley family.

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Tyrone Downie

Tyrone Downie is a Jamaican keyboardist/pianist who is most known for his involvement as a member of Bob Marley and The Wailers.

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Uziah Thompson

Uziah "Sticky" Thompson (1 August 1936 – 25 August 2014) was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s.

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VP Records

VP Records is an independent record label in Queens, New York.

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Yasus Afari

Yasus Afari (born John Sinclair, 1962, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica)Harris, Craig "", Allmusic, Macrovision CorporationMark Dawes (2007) "", Jamaica Gleaner, 21 April 2007 is a Jamaican dub poet.

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Garnet Damoin Smith, Garnet Silk, Garnet Smith.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Silk

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