Jamaican Music

Lady Saw is the “First Lady of Dancehall”. Coming on the scene in the early 80’s she made a name for herself and was the first female deejay to win a Grammy Award. Lady Saw is also the first female to headline shows outside of Jamaica.

Janice Fyffe or Lady G, is a female Jamaican dancehall and reggae DJ. Her most popular song is “Man a Bad Man,” from the film Third World Cop. She has a solid fan base in Jamaica although she is not as popular outside. Other songs of hers include “Nuff Respect,” “Round Table Talk,” “Certain Friends,” and “Breeze Off.” She has also recently toured the United States with Buju Banton.

This is a performace of Movado performing his hit, Gangster for Life in 2006 at a local club in Atlanta. The performance was hot and he did his thing as usual. Can’t wait for more hits from the man that revived reggae in 2007!!!

Shelly Thunder is the original Dancehall Queen. With hits from the 80s like Break Up and Kuff….she’s still on the scene today making gospel music popular to the masses.

Lady G has made her mark on the reggae music game with female anthems such as “Nuff Respect” and “Me or your Gun”. She also took charge of her own finances by creating G-String, her own production company.

Duane Stephenson, formerly of To-Isis has his first solo record called From August Town. Fairy Tale speaks of the struggles of life and is aimed at providing inspiration for the down-trodden and depressed. The video for Fairy Tale is directed by Oral Napier and was shot in Kingston.

This video from Tanya Stephens is about a year or so old, but I still love this song. It just reminds you of the good ole days, sitting on the verandah drinking lemonade!

Shinehead has been on the scene for as long as I can remember. I remember being 5 or 6 and listening to my uncles blast “who the cap fits, let them wear it”. Do you remember that jam…well if not you need to get up on your dancehall music ASAP. Anyway, so almost 22 years later and he’s back with this hit, Jamaican in New York. Its not getting much play yet, but i’m sure it’ll be blazing the airwaves soon enough.

Boring Gal was the first single and first video off the “Gully Sitn” album which dropped in August.

Though this hot one came out in April its still rocking and topping the charts in the UK. The song is hot, the lyrics are hot and the video is even HOTTER!!!!

Wyclef says: they wanna frame frame frame say they lookin for somethin My lawyer got me off now I’m sittin in somethin!!!