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A 1979 photo of Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall singer Sugar Minott is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit against streaming service Napster that could shake up the music industry. However, ...
Minott appeared in the film, ‘Cool Runnings’, as himself. Minott also guested on a reggae reworking of Radiohead’s “Exit Music (For A Film)” on the Radiodread album credited to the Easy Star All-Stars ...
Minott was known for nurturing young talent with his own Black Roots record label and Youthman Promotion company. Reggae and dancehall artists such as Junior Reid and Tenor Saw began their careers ...
Review: For their latest deep dive into the history of Jamaican music, Dr Bird has decided to deliver two key albums from the formative years of dancehall, both of which were produced by King Jammy ...
That groove went on to inspire much of subsequent reggae, distinctly heard in works by Sugar Minott, Ibo Cooper, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown.
Review: Emotional Rescue and HMV Record Shop (Japan) end their DISCO REGGAE LOVERS 7" series with reggae legend Sugar Minott and this utterly unique UK soul-boogie rarity, I Remember Mama. Reggae star ...
By the middle of the 1970s Lincoln “Sugar” Minott had started to recycle numerous Studio One rhythms, giving birth to Dancehall Music as a genre. Between 1979 and the early 1980s’ the genre of ...
Sugar Minott has been played over 190 times on NTS, first on 4 April 2011. Sugar Minott's music has been featured on 166 episodes. Sugar Minott (born Lincoln Barrington Minott, May 25, 1956 in ...
Barnes spent much of the following decade in Kingston helping run a label the reggae musician Sugar Minott put together to bring up younger artists, but returned to New York in 1998 when his ...
Lincoln Barrington Minott was better known to the world as Sugar Minott. The Jamaican reggae singer, producer, and sound system operator was born May 25, 1956, in Kingston, Jamaica. He began a ...