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- ↑ Stolzoff, Norman C. (2000) Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica, Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0822325147, p. 171
- 1 2 3 4 Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9, p. 244-5
- ↑ Room, Adrian (2010) Dictionary of Pseudonyms, McFarland & Co. Ltd., ISBN 978-0786443734, p. 400
- ↑ Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn., Rough Guides, ISBN 1-84353-329-4, p. 295
- ↑ "Artist Biography", Allmusic , retrieved 6 August 2014.
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