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Podcast: Dubmatix Sticky Icky Reggae Mix
Episode: Big Youth: Toasting From the Ghetto
Description: Born Manley Augustus Buchanan on 19 April 1949 in Trenchtown, Kingston, Big Youth grew up in chaos and poverty, one of five children raised by a Christian preacher mother and a police officer father. Before music ever entered the picture, he was working as a diesel mechanic at Kingston’s Sheraton Hotel, where he developed his toasting skills on the job and got the nickname “Big Youth” from his co-workers. That detail alone tells you everything. This was not a man groomed for stardom. He built it from the ground up.
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Big Youth - Cool Breeze
Big Yo...