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TIMELINE EXPLORE OUR HISTORY

This timeline shows an interactive journey through Jamaica's rich and ever-shifting musical history; encompassing it's birth, growth and myriad of characters that has made it a genre admired by the world.

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1966

image Bob Andy's first solo hit record was "I've Got to Go Back Home," (Studio One) in 1966.

1966

image "Fattie Fattie" was The Heptones first Studio One single in 1966

1966

image Bob Andy’s first solo hit record was "I've Got to Go Back Home" (1966)

1966

image Toots and the Maytals won the first-ever Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition with their original song "Bam Bam" in 1966

1965

image Phyllis Dillon signed to Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label in 1965 and wrote her first single, the beautiful ballad "Don't Stay Away" which was released the following year and was an instant local success.
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