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Black Scorpio, the Glossary

Black Scorpio is a Jamaican sound system and record label run by Maurice "Jack Scorpio" Johnson.^[1]

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Jamaican record labels

Barrington Levy

Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.

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Beenie Man

Moses Anthony Davis (born 22 August 1973), professionally known as Beenie Man, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Bounty Killer

Rodney Basil Price (born 12 June 1972), known as Bounty Killer, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay.

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Bunny Rugs

William Alexander Anthony "Bunny Rugs" Clarke, OD (6 February 1948 – 2 February 2014), also known as Bunny Scott, was the lead singer of Jamaican reggae band Third World as well as a solo artist.

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Capleton

Clifton George Bailey III (born 13 April 1967),Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,, pp.

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Dancehall

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

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Dennis Brown

Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer.

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Frankie Paul

Paul Blake (19 October 1965 – 18 May 2017), better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist.

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Garnett Silk

Garnet 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.

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General Trees

Amos Edwards (born 13 December 1960)Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton (2004) The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn, Rough Guides,, p. 284.

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Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Anthony Isaacs OD (15 July 1951 – 25 October 2010)Thompson, p. 127.

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Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jamaica Labour Party

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP; Jumieka Lieba Paati) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party (PNP).

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Jamaica Observer

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

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King Kong (musician)

Dennis Anthony Thomas (born 26 March 1962), better known as King Kong, is a Jamaican deejay/singer best known for his work in the 1980s.

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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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Lady G

Janice Fyffe (born 7 May 1968), known as Lady G, is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae deejay.

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Luciano (singer)

Jepther McClymont OD (born 20 October 1964),Thompson, Dave (2002), Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,, pp.

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Mafia & Fluxy

Mafia & Fluxy are a British reggae rhythm section and production team, consisting of the brothers Leroy (bass) and David Heywood (drums), whose careers began with London reggae band The Instigators in 1977.

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Mega Banton

Mega Banton (born Garth Williams, 1974) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who came to prominence in the early 1990s.

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Papa San

Tyrone Thompson, (born July 1, 1967) better known as Papa San, is a Jamaican reggae, dancehall and gospel singer.

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People's National Party

The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president until his death in 1969.

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Pliers (singer)

Pliers (born Everton Bonner; 4 April 1963, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his collaborations with deejay Chaka Demus under the name Chaka Demus & Pliers.

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Ragga

Raggamuffin music (or simply ragga) is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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Reggae

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

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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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The Gleaner

The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica.

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References

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

Also known as Jack Scorpio.