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Lady G
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Lady G is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and singer active from the 1980s onward, part of the small but consistent line of women deejays who built careers alongside dancehall's male-dominated mainstream.
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Women deejays in dancehall history
Women deejays and singers are in the record from the earliest dancehall onward, and are consistently thinner in the histories than their male contemporaries — fewer interviews, fewer discographies, fewer photographs kept. The gap is in the documentation rather than in the music.
Stance: documented presence vs under-representation