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Jay Douglas
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Jamaican-born singer, from Montego Bay, who moved to Toronto in 1963 as a teenager and fronted the Cougars through the city's and Montreal's Caribbean nightclub circuit: R&B and rocksteady for a dancing diaspora. A foundational figure of Canadian reggae across six decades, he became the living link to the buried first generation, helping Light in the Attic locate Wayne McGhie for the Jamaica to Toronto reissue project he himself anchors on record, and collecting Juno recognition deep into his career.
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- CBC Arts; NOW Toronto; Jay Douglas official site; Light in the Attic (Jamaica to Toronto); Wikipedia "Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy".
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