Dancehall became popular when most Jamaican Djs/producers and artists moved away form producing and playing reggae music to playing and producing dancehall as there as was a huge demand for it. They started playing it in the local Jamaican dance halls and that gave it the name “Dancehall”. The youths in Jamaica liked it as its faster tempos were good to dance too. In 1980 artists such as yellow man and Eek-a-mouse transformed it through using digital instruments and increasing its tempo to form faster rhythms. It was a sub genre of reggae music in the 1970’s and it became a genre of it’s own after it got a new sound of digital/electronic instruments used in its production. ![]() Dancehall is a music genre that originated from Jamaica in the early 1970’s.
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