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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1970

Check out this 1970 Jimmy Cliff Billboard Magazine Advertisement http://www.jamaicansmusic.com/artists/profile/Jimmy_Cliff

Winston "Niney" Holness also known as Niney The Observer was one of the most important and sought after producers in the 1970s working with the likes of Delroy Wilson, The Heptones, Johnny Clarke, Slim Smith, Jacob Miller, Junior D

1970

Among Desmond Dekker’s best known releases in the 1970s was "You Can Get It If You Really Want", written by Jimmy Cliff. Dekker's version which uses the same instrumental backing track as Cliff's original, went to number two in Br

1970

By the mid 1970s, the African Brothers had splintered into separate solo acts, and Sugar Minott turned to Coxsone Dodd for inspiration and professional support. In 1975 Minott recorded his first solo release, called "Wrong Doers," a