He popularized the genre in which the D.J. adds a vocal and verbal layer to a recorded track, a precursor of rap. By Neil Genzlinger U-Roy, who helped transform Jamaican music by expanding the role of ...
Respectfully referred to as The Teacher, The Originator or simply Daddy, U-Roy wasn't the best-known name in Jamaican music among an international audience, yet exerted an incalculable influence on ...
Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford, who transformed the Jamaican art of toasting, or deejaying, from a sound system phenomenon into a hit-making art form that deeply influenced generations of dancehall artists as ...
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