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Video & Media
Moving-image history — from VHS dance videos to the digital platforms carrying dancehall today.
Curated by YardRock TV · Researched by The Reggae Institute
Video & Media
From locally circulated VHS recordings to global streaming platforms, video and media have shaped how dancehall is documented and discovered. This section gathers the Museum's research connected to dancehall's media and screen history.
This is a growing collection. Future additions will include a media timeline tracing dancehall's journey from VHS to digital platforms.
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Cat Coore
Jamaican guitarist and cellist, co-founder and longtime musical director of the pioneering reggae-fusion band Third World.
Dermot Hussey
Jamaican-born broadcaster and musicologist known as the "Dean of Jamaican Radio," celebrated for decades of reggae journalism — including a landmark 1975 Bob Marley interview — and for bringing reggae programming to satellite radio via SiriusXM's "The Joint."
Shabba Ranks
Dancehall's 'Mr. Loverman,' the first dancehall deejay to win a Grammy Award and the artist most responsible for breaking dancehall into the American mainstream in the early 1990s.
Beenie Man
Self-proclaimed 'King of the Dancehall,' one of the genre's most commercially successful and enduring global ambassadors across a career spanning more than four decades.
Elephant Man
High-energy dancehall deejay and self-styled "Energy God" known for creating global dance-craze anthems like "Log On" and "Pon de River, Pon de Bank."
Spragga Benz
Gravel-voiced dancehall deejay and actor whose booming delivery helped bridge dancehall with American hip-hop, and who starred as "Wayne" in the cult Jamaican crime film Shottas.