TIMELINE EXPLORE OUR HISTORY

This timeline shows an interactive journey through Jamaica's rich and ever-shifting musical history; encompassing it's birth, growth and myriad of characters that has made it a genre admired by the world.

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1979

Out This Week (Album): Reggae Anthology: Barrington Levy "Sweet Reggae Music" (1979-84) Filled with certified classics from beginning to end, this 40-track double disc collection covers the early years of Barrington Levy's astonis

1979

UB40's first gig took place on 9 February 1979 at The Hare & Hounds Pub in Kings Heath, Birmingham for a friend's birthday party. (The plaque commemorating UB40's first performance)

1978

In 1978, at the age of 16, Hugh Mundell recorded the album Africa Must Be Free By 1983, produced by Augustus Pablo- Mundell writing all the songs. It included two Black Ark-recorded titles: "Let's All Unite" and "Why Do Black Man Fu

1978

Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Ted Bafaloukos showing the reggae culture at its peak. The Trenchtown variant of Robinhood includes popular Jamaican artists such as Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Jacob Miller and Ian and Roger Le