Jamaica’s sound systems were the forebears for modern day DJ and hip-hop culture. Sound engineers like King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry came onto the scene and pioneered a new genre known as dub.

The lineage of today’s chart-topping hip-hop and, earlier, the international reggae scene can be traced back to the sound system culture that blossomed in Jamaica during the 1950s, 60s and 70s and ...

In 1955, Duke Vin, a sharply dressed and entrepreneurial British Rail employee in west London, who had arrived from Kingston, Jamaica just a year earlier, built his first sound system. It was a ...

Sound System pioneer Daddy Vego arrived from Jamaica in 1956 and will be honoured as Notting Hill Carnival weekend begins SOUNDSYSTEM PIONEER: Barrington Von Adams – better known as “Daddy Vego” - ...