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Oku Onuora

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Styles: Dub Poetry, Dub

Biography: The name of Oku Onuora, Jamaica's best known dub poet, a notorious radical, criminal, and proud subversive, literally translates as fire in the desert and symbolizes the voice of the people.

Considered the father of dubetry, a combination of haunting dub melodies and spoken word, Oku Onora was born

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Pressure Drop

Released: 1990

Label: Heartbeat

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Dubbin' Away

Released: 1999

Label: Roir

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Oku Onuora is one of the many obscure dub poets (other than Linton Kwesi Johnson and perhaps Mutabaruka, there really aren't any famous ones) that dot the reggae landscape, pacing to and fro like dreadlocked ...Read full review

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