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Episode: Ranking Dread: From Sound System Star to Infamous Outlaw
Description: Tracing the Journey of Winston Brown — the deejay who rose with Ray Symbolic and fell into crime
Early Life & Identity
Birth name: Winston Brown (also known as Robert Anthony Blackwood), born May 9, 1956, in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica
Grew up in the Rema and Tivoli ghettos of Kingston
Took on the stage name Ranking Dread, later adopting aliases like Errol Codling and Michael Dicks
Sound System Roots
Gained prominence on Jamaica’s Ray Symbolic sound system during the mid‑1970s
After relocating to London in the late 1970s, he joined Lloyd Coxson...