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BY HOWARD CAMPBELL---  Top: Barrington Levy Bottom: Dr Alimantado Greensleeves Records, the British company largely credited with introducing dancehall music to a wide audience in the United Kingdom, will have

 Top: Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes Bottom: Linval Thompson-- Producers Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes and Linval Thompson, who were critical in shaping modern dancehall, are the subjects of reissue albums from Greensleeves Records. Today, two

 Eek-A-Mouse--- "MI a do a interview. Cyaan talk now!" blares Eek-A-Mouse, reluctantly acknowledging the pounding on the office door at Sound Wave Studio in Kingston. The veteran singjay, his bald

By Kevin Jackson---- Josey Wales-- WHETHER it was going to a dance or listening to the radio, dancehall fans could not get enough of Josey Wales in the 1980s. The

By Howard Campbell---- ONLY the ignorant would bypass Yellowman's role as a dancehall trailblazer, given his achievements in the 1980s. That legacy is revisited in Reggae Anthology, Young, Gifted And

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL----- In August, it will be 50 years since Jamaica gained Independence from Britain. Today, the Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment section reflects on the influence Jamaican pop culture has