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YARDIE MUSIC

Few places are as defined by their music as Jamaica.

Thanks to Bob Marley, reggae is the island soundtrack that

went on to conquer the world, helping permanently brand the

country and bestow on it a global cultural influence well out of

proportion to the island’s tiny size. In fact, there’s a lot more

to Jamaican music than just reggae, as Jamaica’s

relentlessly busy studios attest. Per capita, Jamaica is the

world’s most prolific creator of recorded music. Or as the

patois proverbs put it, ‘We likkle but we talawah’ (We're

small, but we're powerful.) The home of dancheall and

reggae one of the most listeneed in the World we should

appreciate the country's Greatness in Music