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LOVE his voice. His lyrics are hard hitting and powerful. It doesn't get any better than this.
This is the first one of his that I heard:
Enjoy more to come.
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LOVE his voice. His lyrics are hard hitting and powerful. It doesn't get any better than this.
This is the first one of his that I heard:
Enjoy more to come.
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Re: Tropicana spins LKJ
Here is his official site:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Linton Kwesi Johnson was born on 24 August 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica. He came to London in 1963, went to Tulse Hill secondary school and later studied Sociology at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
Whilst still at school he joined the Black Panthers, helped to organize a poetry workshop within the movement and developed his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers. In 1977 he was awarded a C Day Lewis Fellowship, becoming the writer-in-residence for the London Borough of Lambeth for that year. He went on to work as the Library Resources and Education Officer at the Keskidee Centre, the first home of Black theatre and art.
Johnson's poems first appeared in the journal Race Today. In 1974 Race Today published his first collection of poetry, Voices of the Living and the Dead. Dread Beat An ' Blood, his second collection, was published in 1975 by Bogle-L'Ouverture and was also the title of his first LP,, released by Virgin in 1978. That year also saw the release of the film Dread BeatAn ' Blood, a documentary on Johnson's work. In 1980 Race Today published his third book, Inglan Is A [censored] and there were four more albums on the Island label: Forces of Victory (1979), Bass Culture (1980), LKJ in Dub (1981) and Making History (1983).
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