Jah Itagaki's REGGAE LIFE
   This Day in Reggae
and Nubian, Rasta, herb and related history

 January 17
1958: Janet Kay (Janet Kay Bogle) is born in London, England.
1966: Shabba Ranks (Rexton Gordon) is born in St. Ann, Jamaica.
1978: Red Rat (Wallace Wilson) is born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.

 January 18
1968: Rayvon is born in Barbados.
1994: DJ Tiger has a traffic accident and is seriously injured.
At 12:15, his morterbike ran smashed into an official vehicle of U.S. embassy in front of Devon House in Hope Road. Some radio broadcasting carried false report that he died.
2018: Steve "Grizzly" Nisbett [Steel Pulse; drums] passes away at the age of 69.

 January 19
1950: Singer / song writer Milton Henry is born in St. Andrew, Jamaica.
1957: Michael "Mickey" Virtue [UB40; keybords] is born in Birmingham, England.
1965: Deborahe Glasgow is born.
1994: Bob Marley, John Lennon, Rod Stewart, The Grateful Dead, The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, and Elton John are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

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