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Winston "Wee Pow" Powell
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Winston "Wee Pow" Powell built Stone Love Movement in 1972 in Kingston using locally-built amplifiers. Stone Love became Jamaica's most consistently dominant sound system through a "juggling" style - beat-matched selecting, radio-style patter and exclusive dubplates rather than live artist performance - and helped launch or feature dubplates from Buju Banton, Wayne Wonder, Johnny Osbourne, Shabba Ranks, Sanchez and Beenie Man.
He also started a second sound, Purple Love, in 2003, focused on vintage Jamaican music, and is credited alongside Elephant Man with conceiving Weddy Weddy Wednesdays. In January 2025 he publicly said veteran selector Billy Slaughter — 33 years with Stone Love by then — was "no longer on the roster," citing unspecified "inappropriate practices" and adding "he wanted to be the leader, my son is my son, Billy Slaughter is not my son."
Slaughter disputed the characterisation and hinted at legal action; no source found confirms how the dispute was resolved.
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