Venue · 1963 · Kingston [17.97, -76.79]
Studio One (Brentford Road)
Coxsone Dodd's recording studio on Brentford Road in Kingston, the home of his Studio One operation, was the workshop where much of ska, rocksteady, and early reggae was first committed to tape. Generations of musicians passed through its rooms as session players, apprentices, and stars in the making. The cited source documents the Kingston studio at its Studio One address.
Evidence1
musicbrainz.org/place/1eb74bb0-49a3-441f-8b9c-4e6dce7d27e9
accessed 2026-06-04
Connections1
migrates to → DJ Kool Herc
DJ Kool Herc was born Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica, where the sound-system culture run by producers like Coxsone Dodd was the public form of the music. Dodd's Studio One label sat at the centre of that world, even though the speaker stacks themselves belonged to separate sound systems rather than the recording studio. When Herc migrated to the Bronx he carried the sound-system blueprint of massive speakers and an MC working the crowd into the parties that seeded hip hop. The cited Wikidata records confirm Herc's Kingston birthplace and Dodd's place in Jamaican sound-system and dancehall culture.