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Sly & Robbie
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Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, the drum-and-bass partnership that anchored Jamaican music for four decades and played on a scarcely believable number of records. They came up through the Revolutionaries at Channel One, where Sly's militant rockers drumming displaced the one drop, built the Taxi label as producers, and became the international rhythm section of choice — working with Peter Tosh, Black Uhuru, Grace Jones, Bob Dylan and many more. Shakespeare died in 2021.
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