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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SHARE / Jun 15, 1966 12:00 am
Bob Andy's first solo hit record was "I've Got to Go Back Home," (Studio One) in 1966.
SHARE / Jun 15, 1966 12:00 am
"Fattie Fattie" was The Heptones first Studio One single in 1966
SHARE / Jun 15, 1966 12:00 am
Bob Andy’s first solo hit record was "I've Got to Go Back Home" (1966)
SHARE / Jun 15, 1966 12:00 am
Toots and the Maytals won the first-ever Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition with their original song "Bam Bam" in 1966
SHARE / Jun 15, 1965 12:00 am
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.