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Tony Matterhorn

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Selector who became an artist: after building his name on the sound-system circuit — including a celebrated run with New York's King Addies — Matterhorn voiced "Dutty Wine" in 2006, the dance-instruction record whose title move swept dancehall worldwide and stirred its own controversy. Few careers show the selector-to-deejay path more clearly.

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Tony Matterhorn - Dutty Wine | Official Music Video

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Official youtube upload (channel: VP Records); embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.

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  1. 0:05[Music]
  2. 0:10[Music] [Laughter]
  3. 0:14[Laughter]
  4. 0:14[Laughter] [Music]
  5. 0:26[Music]
  6. 1:15[Music] or not
  7. 1:23and going down with Cyrus
  8. 1:28and going down with Cyrus [Music]
  9. 1:35[Music]
  10. 1:35[Music] in these matches two biggest old
  11. 1:41[Music]
  12. 1:45[Music] Matthew Upson and nobody until today nobody
  13. 1:49Matthew Upson and nobody until today nobody
  14. 1:49Matthew Upson and nobody until today nobody without today nobody look for Shanghai and Nanjing
  15. 1:51without today nobody look for Shanghai and Nanjing
  16. 1:51without today nobody look for Shanghai and Nanjing trap of pressing in living
  17. 1:53trap of pressing in living
  18. 1:53trap of pressing in living finally definitive put English bought
  19. 1:56finally definitive put English bought
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  27. 2:08from the current Wheelwright center whose
  28. 2:08from the current Wheelwright center whose offspring
  29. 2:08offspring
  30. 2:08offspring if they were die and Will Wine
  31. 2:11if they were die and Will Wine
  32. 2:11if they were die and Will Wine [Music]
  33. 2:26for me
  34. 2:29who's right
  35. 2:37[Music]
  36. 2:47[Music] love
  37. 2:58love
  38. 2:58love [Music]
  39. 3:12[Music]
  40. 3:12[Music] ultimately when the same window
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  42. 3:20ultimately when the same window city
  43. 3:24[Music]
  44. 3:34[Music] [Applause]
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Passa Passa 30 (Old School) Dancehall Party Video, Kingston, Jamaica 2005

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Community-archived Passa Passa party video featuring Capleton and Tony Matterhorn; discovery-only embed.

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Story · Well supportedWhen the selector becomes the headline

Pink Panther made Black Kat feared. Tony Matterhorn sharpened his clash craft on King Addies. Then each selector carried that history into a career bearing his own name.

Story · ProbableHow a dance becomes a song becomes a movement

Willie Bounce, Dutty Wine, Gully Creepa: dancehall's dance crazes travelled as a package deal of move, name and tune.

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'Dutty Wine kills?' — dance spectacle vs bodily danger

“The body was not designed to undergo that type of stress”

After the Dutty Wine (a rapid neck-and-head-rotating women's dance popularised by Tony Matterhorn's 2006 hit) was linked to injuries and the 2006 death of 18-year-old Tanisha Henry, physicians and columnists argued it was physically dangerous and that Dutty Wine contests should be curtailed or banned; defenders framed it as ordinary dancehall expression sensationalised by moral panic. The Jamaica Gleaner ran a 'Dutty Wine discussion' (6 Nov 2006), and Jamaican physician Winston Jadusingh told the BBC the body was not built for that stress. The safety debate resurfaced in 2020 after dancer Roxanne 'Bumpa' Evans died following a stunt (DancehallMag; Jamaica Star, 'Dancing Deathtraps').

Stance: acrobatic dance moves as harmless creative spectacle vs a medical/public-safety hazard warranting restriction