Gappy Ranks, the Glossary
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Table of Contents
41 relations: AllMusic, Auckland, BBC, Beres Hammond, Birmingham, Busy Signal, Collie Buddz, Cutty Ranks, Dancehall, Delly Ranx, Dominica, Earl's Court, Exco Levi, France, Germany, Glastonbury Festival, Grammy Awards, Greensleeves Records, Gyptian, Harlesden, Italy, Jamaica, Jamaicans, Jet Star (record distribution company), Later... with Jools Holland, Lethal Bizzle, Manchester, MOBO Awards, MTV, Netherlands, Newcastle upon Tyne, Official Charts Company, People of the Dominican Republic, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Switzerland, The Gleaner, The Guardian, Twista, VP Records, Vybz Kartel, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
- British dancehall musicians
- People from Harlesden
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Auckland
Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Beres Hammond
Beres Hammond OJ (born Hugh Beresford Hammond; 28 August 1955, in Annotto Bay, Saint Mary, Jamaica)Moskowitz, David V. (2006) Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall, Greenwood Press,, p. 128-9Huey, Steve "", Allmusic, retrieved 2 February 2010 is a Jamaican reggae singer known in particular for his lovers rock music.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
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Busy Signal
Reanno Devon Gordon (born 24 January 1979), better known by his stage name Busy Signal, is a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist.
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Collie Buddz
Colin Patrick Harper (born August 21, 1984), better known by his stage name Collie Buddz, is a Bermudian reggae artist best known for his single "Come Around".
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Cutty Ranks
Philip Thomas (born 12 February 1965), better known as Cutty Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall singer.
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Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
Delly Ranx
Delroy Isaac Foster, better known as Delly Ranx (also spelled Delly Ranks), is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and record producer.
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Dominica
Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.
Earl's Court
Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.
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Exco Levi
Wayne Ford Levy (born c.1981),Krewen, Nick (2017) "", Toronto Star, August 5, 2017.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Greensleeves Records
Greensleeves Records & Publishing, shortened to Greensleeves Records, is a record label specializing in dancehall and reggae music.
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Gyptian
Windel Beneto Edwards (born 25 October 1983), better known by his stage name Gyptian, is a Jamaican reggae singer.
Harlesden
Harlesden is a district in the London Borough of Brent, North West London.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jamaica
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).
Jamaicans
Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora.
Jet Star (record distribution company)
Jet Star (formally Jet Star Phonographics Ltd.) is a British record distribution company that grew out of Pama Records in 1978.
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Later... with Jools Holland
Later...
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Lethal Bizzle
Maxwell Owusu Ansah (born 14 September 1984), known by his stage name Lethal Bizzle, is a British rapper from Walthamstow, London, of Ghanaian origin.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
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MOBO Awards
The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin, also known as the MOBOs) are an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in "music of black origin", including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, soul, reggae, jazz, gospel, and African music.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
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People of the Dominican Republic
Dominicans (Dominicanos) are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic.
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Sierra Nevada World Music Festival
The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is an annual music festival held every June on the weekend of (or the weekend following) the summer solstice.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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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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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Twista
Carl Terrell Mitchell (born November 27, 1973), better known by his stage name Twista (formerly Tung Twista), is an American rapper.
VP Records
VP Records is an independent Caribbean-owned record label in Queens, New York.
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Vybz Kartel
Adidja Azim Palmer (born 7 January 1976), better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay.
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region.
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See also
British dancehall musicians
- 2Play
- AJ Tracey
- Faya (duo)
- Gappy Ranks
- Glamma Kid
- Kevin Martin (British musician)
- Livvi Franc
- MC Kinky
- Smujji
- The Heatwave
- Tubby T
People from Harlesden
- Amina Kamara
- Bruce Wells
- C. D. Broad
- Carla Marie Williams
- Chizzy Akudolu
- Colin Smith (athlete)
- Cyrille Regis
- Denis Pritt
- Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter)
- Freddie Bartholomew
- Frederick Bentham
- Gappy Ranks
- Huw Lloyd-Langton
- Ian Stone
- James DeGale
- Jane Scott, Baroness Scott of Bybrook
- Julian Golding
- Kenneth Hudson
- Lenora Crichlow
- Liz Mitchell
- Louis Theroux
- Michelle Gayle
- Nicky Hopkins
- Nines (rapper)
- Patrick Mullings
- Paul Daisley
- Paul Merson
- Raymond Garlick
- Richard Langley
- Ricky German
- Roger Sloman
- Sabrina Washington
- Sir Harold Vincent
- Theo Hobson
- Vincent Marks
- Warren Waugh