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Dub pioneer Jah Shaka has passed away

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Dub and sound system legend Jah Shaka has died. His passing occurred today (April 12), his son confirmed in an Instagram post this afternoon.

The cause of his death has not been disclosed, nor has his exact age at the time of his passing. Born in Jamaica’s Clarendon Province, Shaka moved to London as a child in the early 1950s and remained there for the majority of his life and career.

As a young adult, he worked with local speaker builder Freddie Cloudburst, helping him maintain his system. Eventually, he was allowed to play records with the sound system — a term for not only the massive PA systems that reggae and dub DJs performed on at the time, but also the collectives of DJs and audio engineers that formed around them — and began to build his own.

Throughout the ’70s, the sound system he founded developed an ardent following that included younger dub musicians such as Jah Warrior and Iration Steppas, as well as many punk and post-punk rockers who incorporated dub sounds into their own music, from the Slits to Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd’s John Lydon.

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