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Diana Rutherford

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Jamaican singer from August Town, Kingston, daughter of the singer Michael Rutherford, who ran the sound system Genuine. She won the Tastee Talent competition at ten, appeared at Digicel Rising Stars in 2003, and was recording for Xterminator by twelve. Her album "Ghetto Princess," sixteen tracks, was made with the French producer Romain Chiffre -- Sherkhan -- for the French-Jamaican label Tiger Records, alongside singles including "A New Day" with Sizzla, "Rescue Me," "Lost In Extasy" and "Rebel." .

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United Reggae artist page and its 2015 interview with Rutherford and Sherkhan; Reggaeville biography; Tiger Records.
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From a Marley 7-inch on a reggae-starved island in 1977 to four decades inside France's sound systems and music press -- one correspondent's account, written directly to the Atlas, of a scene this archive had barely reached.

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