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Dennis Brown: Reggae crooner highly respected

Nicholas Jennings, Toronto Star, 19 February 1992

REGGAE ARTISTS seem to have a knack for taking well-known pop songs, transforming them with reggae's distinctive, loping rhythm – what Bob Marley called "the one drop" – and creating new, sure-fire hits for themselves.

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