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Pamputtae

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Pamputtae (born Eveana Henry in Kingston) broke through in dancehall in the mid-2000s and scored her defining hit with 2009's 'Single Mothers'; in 2018 she founded the Pamputtae Single Mother Foundation and has continued performing internationally while speaking out against body-shaming and colourism pressures in the dancehall scene.

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Jamaica Gleaner; Wikipedia; DancehallMag.

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