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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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1969

image Pat Kelly's "How Long Will It Take" was the biggest-selling Jamaican single of 1969, and was the first Jamaican record to feature a string arrangement.

1968

image “Red, Red Wine” is a song written and performed by Neil Diamond in 1968. Tony Tribe covered the song in 1969 in a reggae-influenced style, and UB40 covered the song in 1983 in a lighter reggae-style. It became the first reggae h

1968

image The word Reggae first appeared in print in 1968 hit 'Do the Reggay" by Toots & The Maytals.

1968

image When Coxsone Dodd, the STUDIO 1 owner, traveled to England in 1968, he brought some gadgets with him, among them an electronic device called an ECHOPLEX, a delay box. And this very kind of box changed music forever. This new dimensi

1968

image In 1968, Jimmy Cliff released his debut album, Hard Road To Travel, and won the International Song Festival with "Waterfall," a song that became a smash hit in Brazil.
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