WHEN the post-war Jamaican immigrants stepped off the ship in London—the women in A-line dresses, the men in neat hats—Jamaican music was a sleepy and harmless thing. Tallymen tallied bananas, and ...

This is the 21st in our daily series highlighting 55 Jamaicans who broke down barriers and helped put the country on the world stage. Each day, one personality will be featured, culminating ...

My father, Clement Dodd, who has died aged 93, was a political scientist and academic, an expert in modern Turkish politics and democracy. He was deeply interested in the relationship between Turkey ...

Coxsone Dodd, the record producer and entrepreneur who helped invent the Jamaican music industry, died Tuesday at his studio in Kingston. He was 72. The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter ...

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CLEMENT Dodd Jr, the son of legendary music producer Clement ‘Sir Coxon’ Dodd Sr, has died. His brother, Courtney Dodd, said he died Thursday from cancer in New York City at age 56. Dodd Jr had been ...

The sun glittering over the Caribbean, bottles of cold Red Stripe on a table, a dancing couple jerking their bodies to the brassy new rhythms of ska and a speaker-box bearing the name of a ...

Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd (nicknamed Sir Coxsone in school after a famous cricket player, a sport he was proficient at) died of a heart attack in his Kingston, Jamaica recording studio on May 4, 2004 ...

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The Jamaican record producer Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, nurtured the career of nearly every internationally renowned reggae artist. He was one of the first to ...

Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd, the record producer who died on Tuesday aged 72, was credited with launching the career of the reggae star Bob Marley and was a hugely influential figure in the development ...