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Grammy Academy Recognizes These Jamaican Women as Essential to Reggae and Dancehall

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Grammy Academy Recognizes These Jamaican Women as Essential to Reggae and Dancehall


The Recording Academy, which presents the prestigious Grammy music awards, has named some of the women who were instrumental in shaping the sounds of reggae and dancehall music.
 
Most people think of Bob Marley when they think of reggae, but women have had an integral role in building much of the music scene in Jamaica from its beginnings in the 1960s.
 
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Academy highlighted four of the women it identified as foundational to the development of reggae and dancehall.
 
Sonia Eloise Pottinger
Patricia Chin
Marcia Griffiths
Sister Nancy
 
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