Jamaica Independence Festival information

The Jamaica Independence Festival is a celebration of Jamaica's independence, a status gained in 1962. The festival was initiated in 1962 by then Minister...

for plantation work. Jamaicans achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. With 2.8 million people, Jamaica is the third most populous...

Stanley Beckford (1942–2007) was a Jamaican born Mento singer, songwriter, and four time Jamaica Independence Festival song contest winner who recorded...

written by Cowan and Weir about the Jamaica Independence Festival. "Ba Ba Boom" was entered in the 1967 Independence Festival Song Competition (now known as...

Roy Rayon (born 20 June 1959) is a Jamaican singer who has won the Jamaica Independence Festival Popular Song Competition four times. Born in Westmoreland...

Byron Lee in 1966. With Lee, the Maytals won the first-ever Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition in 1966 with their original song "Bam...

Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century;...

1968 Jamaica Independence Festival Song Contest), "Bongo Girl" and "Shing a Ling". 1969 saw the release of "It Mek", which became a hit both in Jamaica and...

Jamaican culture consists of the religion, norms, values, and lifestyle that define the people of Jamaica. The culture is mixed, with an ethnically diverse...

a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies. It is practiced most notably in Jamaica, The...

and producer 1970–71 Director Jamaica Independence Festival (London) 1972 Press secretary to Prime Minister of Jamaica 1973 and 1979–80 Assistant director...

had a particular interest in music, serving as patron of the Jamaica Independence Festival and starting the tradition of annual Christmas concerts at King's...

Jamaica Independence Festival and the creation of the Jamaica School of Dance. Baxter led the "education, documentation and dissemination of Jamaican...

the end of Jamaica's founding generation in active politics. He was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence in 1962,...

Pinebank, overlooking Jamaica Pond in 1802. The early years of the 19th century continued the trends of the post-Independence years. An aqueduct was...

Law of 1861 was liberalized in 1967. By this point, Jamaica had already gained its independence in 1962, and thus its buggery law adopted from the British...

competition Montreal High Lights Festival The People's Games St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival Jamaica Day Massimadi Festival Romani Yag, a Roma/gypsy cultural...

Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in...

a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by...

Three King's Day Saint John — St. John Festival, June through July 3 & 4, V.I. Emancipation Day and U.S. Independence Day Saint Thomas — V.I. Carnival, April...

Robert Nesta Marley OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre...

was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology...

Day (United States Virgin Islands) Independence Day (Belarus) July 4 Birthday of Queen Sonja (Norway) Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people...