From Harlesden to Yokohama: UK reggae star Gappy Ranks

Inspired by the vintage Jamaican sounds he used to hear home – and more recently by a trip to Japan which coincided with the earthquake – Gappy Ranks is a big noise in UK reggaeAs a youth in Harlesden, the northwest London district that sometimes gets called the centre of London's reggae scene, Gappy Ranks always looked forward to Sundays, when his Jamaican father and Dominican mother would fill the family's flat with the sounds of classic reggae and other music from back home in the island...

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