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The Jolly Boys
27,771 listeners
A mento quartet from Port Antonio, Jamaica, formed 1955. They perform with bongos, banjo, rhumba box & kalimba / finger-piano. In the 50s, they…
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Stanley Beckford
5,764 listeners
Stanley was born February 17, 1942 in the parish of Portland. He was orphaned as a child and wound up living in Kingston. Taking a path that other…
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Lord Composer
4,233 listeners
Lord Composer (1924 -1990) was a Jamaican mento artist.
Lord Composer and His Silver Seas Hotel Orchestra recorded "Gal A Gully"/"Matilda" and…
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Laurel Aitken
118,812 listeners
Lorenzo Aitken (22 April 1927 – 17 July 2005), better known by the stage name Laurel Aitken, was an influential Caribbean singer and one of the…
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Lord Foodos
968 listeners
Lord Foodos was a steel band calypso/mento musician who released some music in the late 1950s.
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Lord Tanamo
62,094 listeners
Joseph Abraham Gordon (2 October 1934 – 19 April 2016), better known as Lord Tanamo, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter best known for his…
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Count Lasher
8,960 listeners
Count Lasher (Terence Parkins) was most likely Mento's greatest single talent. He was one of mento's very best vocalists (along with Harold…
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The Hiltonaires
532 listeners
60's era 'Ska-Lip-So' group influenced by Lord Fly that entertained tourists with a blend of calypso & ska sounds playing at a long term…
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Sugar Belly
2,329 listeners
Sugar Belly (William Walker) was a Jamaican mento musician. He developed on his own the instrument he called the bamboo saxophone. At the height of…
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Chin's Calypso Sextet
550 listeners
Chin's Calypso Sextet is one of the most prolific and most fondly remembered mento acts of the golden age. Chin's was consistently a strictly…
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Lord Fly
1,059 listeners
Born in Lucea, Jamaica in 1905 to a musical family, Lord Fly (Rupert Linly Lyon , called 'Pertie' by friends and family) has the distinction of the…
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Harry Belafonte
499,158 listeners
Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927 in New York, New York, United States) is an African-American musician, actor and social activist of…
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Derrick Harriott
108,116 listeners
Derrick Harriott (born Derrick Clinton Harriott, 6 February 1939, Jamaica) is a singer and record producer. He has produced recordings by Big…
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Lord Creator
44,227 listeners
Lord Creator (born Kentrick Patrick around 1940, in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago) is a ska artist. He started as a calypso singer under the…
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