Was Reggae First Heard?

Reggae which is afro-Caribbean music, was first heard in the UK in the 1950s when immigrants began to settle here. It was then known as Ska or Bluebeat. During the 1960s, people began importing singles from Jamaica to sell in UK shops. At this point, it had a lively, quick tempo and had an uplifting sound.

Who first started reggae music?

Reggae music was mainly popularized by Bob Marley (1), first as the co-leader of the Wailers, the band that promoted the image of the urban guerrilla with Rude Boy (1966) and that cut the first album of reggae music, Best Of The Wailers (1970); and later as the political and religious (rasta) guru of the movement, a ...

What came first reggae or dub?

Dub is a genre of electronic music that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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