Linton Kwesi Johnson
UK
Born: 24 August 1952
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Reggae, International
Styles: Dub Poetry, Reggae/Caribbean, Dub, Political Reggae, Reggae/Caribbean
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Although he has only released one album of new material in the last ten years, and virtually retired from the live stage after his 1985 tour, Linton Kwesi Johnson remains a towering figure in reggae music. Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in the Brixton section of London, Johnson invented dub poetry, a type of toasting descended from the DJ stylings of U-Roy and I-Roy. But whereas toasting tended to be hyperkinetic and given to fits of braggadocio, Johnson's poetry (which is what it was -- he was a published poet and journalist before he pe...
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