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Junior Reid

Reggae
Reggae

Junior Reid is a Reggae act. Their sound grew out of Cham, Tyrone Downie, Leroy Smart, Blackout and Snow. Those roots explain a lot about how Junior Reid arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Leroy Smart, Garnett Silk, Half Pint, Jacob Miller and Dennis Brown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jah Mason, MIMS, Baby Cham, The Soup Dragons and Vampire Weekend, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 56 connections around Junior Reid, reaching back through Cham and forward to Jah Mason. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Junior ReidChamTyrone DownieLeroy SmartBlackoutSnowInner CircleBlack UhuruDon CarlosJah MasonMIMSBaby ChamThe Soup DragonsVampire WeekendNinjamanMighty DiamondsBig YouthLeroy SmartGarnett SilkHalf PintJacob MillerDennis BrownLone RangerGregory IsaacsBlack Roots

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Junior Reid connections

Junior Reid grew out of Cham, Tyrone Downie, Leroy Smart and Blackout, shares an orbit with Leroy Smart, Garnett Silk, Half Pint and Jacob Miller, went on to shape Jah Mason, MIMS, Baby Cham and The Soup Dragons. 56 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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