Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Doris Darlington, a Jamaican Maroon woman, was nicknamed "Nanny," after the famed female leader Nanny of the Maroons, Darlington owned a food shop, later a liquor store in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1950s and 60s. This site provided the initial space for her son, Coxsone Dodd to begin playing music for customers, a practice that eventually led to him founding Studio One and becoming one of the island's key musical forces. When her son was away buying records to play on the sound system, Darlington set up and ran the sound system herself, and thus can be named one of Jamaica's first sound system operators, and a force in the development of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. Darlington also ran a record store in Jamaica, was often present at Studio One recording studios and involved in producing music in the early 1960s."@en }
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- Doris_Darlington abstract "Doris Darlington, a Jamaican Maroon woman, was nicknamed "Nanny," after the famed female leader Nanny of the Maroons, Darlington owned a food shop, later a liquor store in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1950s and 60s. This site provided the initial space for her son, Coxsone Dodd to begin playing music for customers, a practice that eventually led to him founding Studio One and becoming one of the island's key musical forces. When her son was away buying records to play on the sound system, Darlington set up and ran the sound system herself, and thus can be named one of Jamaica's first sound system operators, and a force in the development of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. Darlington also ran a record store in Jamaica, was often present at Studio One recording studios and involved in producing music in the early 1960s.".