Biography
Theirs is the ultimate musical marriage, a partnership that, once formed, re-etched the very landscape of not just Jamaican music, but the entire world's. Such hyperbole is oftentimes rolled out by publicity machines whenever two musical talents come together, but in the case of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, it really was an earth-shattering union. Their rhythms have been the driving force behind innumerable songs -- one statistician estimated that together they've played on approximately 200,000 tracks, and that doesn't count remixes, versions, and dubs. As a production team, the pair has been the equivalent of a creative storm, the cutting edge of modern dub, ragga, and dancehall.
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Influenced By
- Jimmy Cliff
- Toots & the Maytals
- The Skatalites
- James Brown
- Marvin Gaye
- Curtis Mayfield
- Sly & the Family Stone
- King Tubby
- The Funk Brothers
- Peter Tosh
- Lee "Scratch" Perry
- The Wailers
- Fat Eyes
Followed
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Noiseshaper
- The Clash
- Roots Radics
- Barmy Army
- Monkey
- Sorcerer
- Mr. G
- Roni Size
- Ziggy Marley
- Mad Cobra
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- Shaggy
- Maxi Priest
- LTJ Bukem
- Shinehead
- Sizzla
- Finley Quaye
- Jah Wobble
- Dub Syndicate
