ska
ska: what it is, how it sounds and 8 musicians associated with it.
Ska (; Jamaican Patois: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento (sometimes referred to as calypso) with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.
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ska musicians
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
1985– · Japanese ska band
Ernest Ranglin
b. 1932 · Jamaican guitarist and composer
The Cat Empire
1999– · Australian rock band
Linda Lewis
1950–2023 · British musician (1950–2023)
Tommy McCook
1927–1998 · Jamaican musician (1927–1998)
IFA Wartburg
Swedish band founded by Heinz Klinger and Rolf Kempinski
Che Sudaka
2002– · musical group of Argentina, Colombia and Spain
Bravo
1983– · Russian rock and roll band