Jamaica has always treated other people’s songs as raw material. In the sound system days, selectors hunted American R&B records and Kingston producers cut local versions to meet the demand, so the cover became part of the island’s musical DNA.


Jamaica has always treated other people’s songs as raw material. In the sound system days, selectors hunted American R&B records and Kingston producers cut local versions to meet the demand, so the cover became part of the island’s musical DNA.