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10 Things to Know about Chinese Jamaican Influence on Reggae Music
Today’s reggae music is synonymous with the name Bob Marley and Rastafari, but there’s also a small but unsung group of Chinese session musicians, producers, sound engineers, and studio & record shop owners that were the early pioneers of reggae that evolved into the Jamaican music of today. Their descendants are still making an impact on the music industry.
A majority of the Chinese-Jamaicans that influenced reggae were descendants of the Hakka people from the Guangdong province in South China. The area is now known as Shenzhen. The following are just 10 things that everyone should know about the influence of the Chinese on Jamaican music.
1. After slavery was abolished, the Hakka Chinese first came to Jamaica as indentured servants in 1854. One ship came directly from China. The second ship transported 472 individuals that had been working on the Panama Canal and were instructed to build a railway line.
https://jamaicans.com/10-things-to-k...-reggae-music/
Chinese-Jamaicans: Reggae's Unsung Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXS-6mcM9PQ
Today’s reggae music is synonymous with the name Bob Marley and Rastafari, but there’s also a small but unsung group of Chinese session musicians, producers, sound engineers, and studio & record shop owners that were the early pioneers of reggae that evolved into the Jamaican music of today. Their descendants are still making an impact on the music industry.
A majority of the Chinese-Jamaicans that influenced reggae were descendants of the Hakka people from the Guangdong province in South China. The area is now known as Shenzhen. The following are just 10 things that everyone should know about the influence of the Chinese on Jamaican music.
1. After slavery was abolished, the Hakka Chinese first came to Jamaica as indentured servants in 1854. One ship came directly from China. The second ship transported 472 individuals that had been working on the Panama Canal and were instructed to build a railway line.
https://jamaicans.com/10-things-to-k...-reggae-music/
Chinese-Jamaicans: Reggae's Unsung Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXS-6mcM9PQ
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