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Percival "Metro" Miller

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Percival 'Metro' Miller (born 1941 in Jamaica) emigrated to Britain in 1957 and became one of the pioneering operators of Jamaican-style sound systems in London, running Metro Downbeat. After his own sound wound down following a dancehall injury in 1969, he built amplifiers full-time, most notably constructing the valve amplifier rig behind Jah Shaka's sound.

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Story · ProbableFoundation sounds before the famous three

Long before Coxsone, Duke Reid and Prince Buster became reggae's founding trinity, a wider field of 1950s operators built the culture — and its DIY engineering habit followed Jamaican emigrants to London.