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Dickie's Dynamic

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Kingston sound system operated by Dickie Wong, earlier known as Doctor Dickies; it is remembered as the set on which a teenage U-Roy began deejaying professionally in 1961 before he moved on to Sir George the Atomic.

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Type: sound system
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The Originator: U-Roy transformed the deejay from a toaster to a star

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Story · Well supportedApprenticed to the sound: the deejay ladder

Every great Jamaican deejay of the 1960s and 70s served an apprenticeship on a named sound system.