This Day in Jamaican Music

September 20

On September 20 in Jamaican music: we remember Ken Khouri (2003), 3 releases dated to this day, including Legit by Various Artists (1993) and 1 story from the news archive.

Releases

Released on this day

3

Albums and singles in the Listen library dated to this day — press play from any title.

  1. 1993 LegitAlbum

    Various Artists

  2. 2005 Our MusicAlbum

    Burning Spear

  3. 2019 EmpressSingle

    Busy Signal

Tributes

Remembered on this day

1

Voices we lost on this date. Their music is still in the library.

  1. 2003 Ken Khouri

    Passed away · 23 years ago

News archive

Stories published on this day

1

From the JamaicansMusic newsroom, going back to 2008.

  1. 2013 Rare finds: Peter Tosh acoustic tracks + first ever definitive biography

    Music

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