Sugar Minott
Sugar Minott wrote new songs over old Studio One riddims in the late 1970s, and early dancehall grew from that habit. Youth Promotion, his sound and label, brought the next singers in.
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Lincoln “Sugar” Minott began with The African Brothers before recording at Studio One in the late 1970s. Instead of only singing newly built songs, he wrote fresh vocals over classic Coxsone Dodd rhythms, a method heard across Live Loving and Showcase. His conversational melody sat between roots singing and the emerging singjay world. Minott also understood that a scene needs more than stars. Through Black Roots and Youth Promotion, he supported younger artists including Tenor Saw, Yami Bolo and Garnett Silk. “Good Thing Going” gave him a UK hit, but his deeper legacy is infrastructural: he helped make reused riddims, artist development and the dancehall singer part of the same system.
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Came togetherMinott’s reuse of Studio One foundations was creative authorship inside Jamaican riddim culture, not simple cover-version work.
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Last checked 1 September 2026