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  Amy Winehouse
  Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B;, soul, jazz. Winehouse is best known for her powerful contralto vocals.
  http://wn.com/Amy_Winehouse
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  Ben Harper
  Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Australia. Harper is a two-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005.
  http://wn.com/Ben_Harper
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  Bob Marley
  Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Marley
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  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
  http://wn.com/Bonnie_Raitt
• Broken Lizard
  Broken Lizard is a comedy troupe, consisting of five friends, best known for its films, including Super Troopers and Beerfest. Its five members are Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. These collaborate on the screen-writing, acting and productions of their films, with Chandrasekhar and Heffernan being the primary directors. Broken Lizard does not have a single executive producer who serves as team captain and chooses its material.
  http://wn.com/Broken_Lizard
• Byron Lee
  Byron Lee OD, OJ (born Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee, 27 June 1935, Christiana, Manchester, Jamaica, died 4 November 2008, Kingston, Jamaica) was a musician, record producer, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires.
  http://wn.com/Byron_Lee
• Carl Harvey
  Carl Harvey is a Jamaican born guitarist and record producer who recorded as a member of Crack of Dawn and The Aggrovators in the 1970s, and later became guitarist for Toots & the Maytals.
  http://wn.com/Carl_Harvey
• Chaka Demus
  Chaka Demus (born 16 April 1963, West Kingston, Jamaica) is a well known reggae musician and deejay, best known for a string of hits which enjoyed chart success in the 1990s, in both his native Jamaica and around the world.
  http://wn.com/Chaka_Demus
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• Chris Blackwell
  Chris Blackwell (born June 22, 1937) is the founder of independent record company Island Records, and has been a music industry mogul for over fifty years. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music.
  http://wn.com/Chris_Blackwell
• Easy Star All-Stars
  Originally formed as a studio band for the label's earliest recordings, Easy Star All-Stars is a reggae collective with a rotating roster of musicians and singers founded by the co-founders (Michael Goldwasser, Eric Smith, Lem Oppenheimer & Remy Gerstein) of New York City-based Easy Star Records in 1997. Although they have backed many artists and produced several original releases, they are best know for covering popular albums in a reggae and dub style and have released three cover albums to date. The first, released in 2003, was an interpretation of Pink Floyd's classic The Dark Side of the Moon entitled Dub Side of the Moon; the second was 2006's Radiodread, a song-by-song cover of Radiohead's OK Computer.
  http://wn.com/Easy_Star_All-Stars
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  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
  http://wn.com/Eric_Clapton
• Ernest Ranglin
  Ernest Ranglin O.D. (born June 19, 1932 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a Jamaican guitarist and composer. Best known for his session work at the famed Studio One, Ranglin helped give birth to the ska genre in the late 1950s. Some credit Ranglin with the invention of the core style of guitar play (sometimes known as "scratching") found in nearly all ska music.
  http://wn.com/Ernest_Ranglin
• Fermín Muguruza
  http://wn.com/Fermín_Muguruza
• Josh Heinrichs
  http://wn.com/Josh_Heinrichs
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  Keith Richards
  Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which are listed by Rolling Stone magazine among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
  http://wn.com/Keith_Richards
• Leslie Kong
  Leslie Kong (1933 – August 9, 1971) was a Chinese Jamaican record producer.
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  Otis Redding
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967, "Otis Redding is rock & roll". Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", was released.
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  Peter Tosh
  Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement.
  http://wn.com/Peter_Tosh
• Prince Buster
  Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. (born 28 May 1938), better known as Prince Buster and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he made on the Blue Beat label in the 1960s inspired many reggae and ska artists.
  http://wn.com/Prince_Buster
• Shane Meadows
  Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English film director, screenwriter, occasional actor and BAFTA winner.
  http://wn.com/Shane_Meadows
• Sister Nancy
  Sister Nancy, aka Muma Nancy, real name Ophlin Russell-Myers, (born Ophlin Russell, 2 January 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) is a dancehall DJ and singer. She is known to the world as the first female dancehall DJ and was described as being a "dominating female voice for over two decades" on the dancehall scene. One of her most famous songs is "Bam Bam", labeled as a "well-known reggae anthem" by BBC and a "classic" by The Observer.
  http://wn.com/Sister_Nancy
• The Oppressed
  The Oppressed is a Welsh anti-fascist Oi! band that formed in 1981 in Cardiff. Most of the musicians in the band's various lineups were skinheads. Throughout the band's career, the members (especially vocalist Roddy Moreno) openly expressed opposition to racism and fascism — in their lyrics, interviews, on-stage comments and other actions. In 1989, Moreno visited New York City and met many members of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP). On his return to the United Kingdom, he started promoting SHARP ideals to British skinheads. The band has also had ties to other anti-racist groups, such as Anti-Fascist Action. Moreno is a Cardiff City F.C. supporter, and some of the band's songs express that support.
  http://wn.com/The_Oppressed
• Toots Hibbert
  Toots Hibbert (born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, 10 December 1945, May Pen, Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica) is a ska and roots reggae singer and leader of the reggae band Toots & the Maytals.
  http://wn.com/Toots_Hibbert
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  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
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  Australia
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  England
  England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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  Jamaica
  Jamaica () is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harboring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs".
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  Kingston, Jamaica
  Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. In the Americas, Kingston is the largest predominantly English-speaking city south of the United States.
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• Manchester
  Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, the population of the city was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian.
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  May Pen
  May Pen is the capital and largest town in the parish of Clarendon in the Middlesex County, Jamaica. It is located on the Rio Minho river (Jamaica's longest), and is a major market centre and financial Center for the Parish. The population is estimated at around 60,000, with the surrounding suburbs of Sandy Bay, Mineral Heights, Hazard, Palmers Cross, Denbigh (Race Track), and Four Paths all accounting for an estimted 82,000. The town has a mayor.
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
  http://wn.com/United_States

• 50th Grammy Awards
• Adam Ant
• album
• Allmusic
• Amy Winehouse
• animation
• audio engineering
• Australia
• bail
• Ben Harper
• Beverley's
• Bla. Bla. Bla.
• Bob Marley
• Bonnie Raitt
• Broken Lizard
• Byron Lee
• cannabis (drug)
• Carl Harvey
• Chaka Demus
• chart-topper
• Chinese Jamaican
• Chris Blackwell
• Club Dread
• Compact disc
• concert tour
• Countryman (film)
• cover version
• Coxsone Dodd
• Do the Reggay
• Dr. Feelgood
• Easy Star All-Stars
• England
• Eric Clapton
• Ernest Ranglin
• Fermín Muguruza
• film
• frontman
• Funky Kingston
• gospel music
• Gov't Mule
• Grammy Award
• harmony
• hit record
• house band
• human voice
• Island Records
• Jamaica
• Jamaican
• Jimmy Cliff
• Josh Heinrichs
• Keith Richards
• Kingston, Jamaica
• Kortatu
• Leslie Kong
• Los Pericos
• Louie Louie
• lyrics
• Manchester
• Mango Records
• May Pen
• Miami Ink
• musical ensemble
• No Doubt
• North America
• OK Computer
• Ore Ska Band
• Otis Redding
• Peter Tosh
• Pressure Drop (song)
• Prince Buster
• Punky Reggae Party
• radio station
• Radiodread
• Radiohead
• record chart
• record producer
• recording contract
• Recoup
• Reel Big Fish
• refrain
• Reggae
• Reggae Greats
• Repo Men
• Rhythm Festival
• rock band
• Rocksteady
• sampling (music)
• Shaggy (artist)
• Shane Meadows
• Sister Nancy
• Ska
• Skins (TV Series)
• Sonic Boom Six
• Sounds to Consume
• Sublime (band)
• Surf's Up (film)
• television program
• The Clash
• The Damned (band)
• The Harder They Come
• The Jam
• The Oppressed
• The Roots
• The Skatalites
• The Specials
• The Trews
• The Who
• theme music
• This Is England
• TLC (TV channel)
• Toots Hibbert
• Trey Anastasio
• tribute album
• Trojan Records
• United Kingdom
• United States
• V2 Records
• Vanguard Records
• video game
• Weeds (TV series)
• Willie Nelson
• Xavier Rudd

Toots Filmography

• Made in Jamaica (2006)