| dbo:abstract |
Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown; c. 1955 – 1996) was a Jamaican reggae deejay and was born in the Jamaican parish of Trelawny but grew up in the Kingston ghettos of Rema and Tivoli. He became famous for his work with the Ray Symbolic sound system in the 1970s. His later years in the UK and North America were dogged by legal issues. (en) |
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1980-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
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Robert Blackwood, Errol Codling, Michael Dicks, Boyark (en) |
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solo_singer |
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1956-05-09 (xsd:date) |
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| dbo:occupation |
dbr:Deejay_(Jamaican) |
| dbo:recordLabel |
dbr:Greensleeves_Records |
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090625021513/http:/www.roots-archives.com/artist/162 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724031653/http:/www.reggaepedia.net/discogs/discorankingdread/ |
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Robert Blackwood, Errol Codling, Michael Dicks, Boyark (en) |
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solo_singer (en) |
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Winston Brown (en) |
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Burning Sounds, Greensleeves (en) |
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Ranking Dread (en) |
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dbr:Deejay_(Jamaican) |
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Kingston, Jamaica (en) |
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| rdfs:comment |
Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown; c. 1955 – 1996) was a Jamaican reggae deejay and was born in the Jamaican parish of Trelawny but grew up in the Kingston ghettos of Rema and Tivoli. He became famous for his work with the Ray Symbolic sound system in the 1970s. His later years in the UK and North America were dogged by legal issues. (en) |
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Ranking Dread (en) |
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Ranking Dread (en) |
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