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Jean "Binta" Breeze

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Jean "Binta" Breeze (11 March 1956 - 4 August 2021) is recognized as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. She moved to Kingston in 1978 and studied at the Jamaican School of Drama, where she met Michael "Mikey" Smith and Oku Onuora; she made her stage debut alongside Mutabaruka in 1981, who went on to record her work, including "Aid Travels with a Bomb," on the compilation album "Word Sound 'ave Power.".

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