"There is the marketing and promotional side that we are still learning. So based on my tenure in the entertainment industry and the success of my latest film, it was an easy decision," he said pointing out that he and his partner are taking the new venture as a learning experience, gaining knowledge about the business as they go along. my first feature film was done 10 years ago (A Dance with Grace). I have been in the business for a while now. "Music is a component of making movies so we were familiar with the process. In a recent interview with The Gleaner, the producer of the films Jamaican Mafia and A Dance For Grace, revealed that he and his business partner Elvis Griffiths, decided to start their own record label, YB Records, pointing out that their love for music and their years of experience in the entertainment industry, made their new venture an easy transition. Kroubo Dagnini published in the academic journal Études caribéennes (June 2018).After a successful career producing movies, Orville Matherson is looking to expand his reach in the entertainment industry by venturing into music.
Review of Musiques noires in Le Monde diplomatique and interview in CQFD.Review of Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973-1976 in Inrocks and in Jamaica Observer.Les bonnes feuilles de Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973-1976 (2013).Les bonnes feuilles de Lee "Scratch" Perry: People Funny Boy (2012).Conversation with professor Carolyn Cooper on Jamaican music (October 2010).Interview in The Inrocks en 2009: conversation with Francis Dordor.And film screening at the National Gallery of Jamaica on 28 April 2019 (The 25th Art of Reggae Exhibition). Selected at the Francophone Film Festival in Kingston, Jamaica (14-24 November 2018). Le Souffle du reggae (English title: Blowin' In The Reggae Wind), documentary directed by Jérémie Cuvillier and co-written with Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini.L'Histoire d'une résistance sonore (Editor). Rasta & Résistance (directeur d'ouvrage et préface).Lee "Scratch" Perry: People Funny Boy (translation).L'Histoire des musiques populaires jamaïcaines au XXe siècle, Camion blanc, 2011 ISBN 978-2-35779-157-2. Reissued by Éditions du Camion Blanc in 2013 (preface by professor Barry Chevannes). Mento, ska, rocksteady, early reggae, L'Harmattan, 2008 ISBN 978-2-8.
Les Origines du reggae : Retour aux sources.JKD is of Ivorian descent through his father side. More recently, he gave his views on the popular Jamaican expression Bumbo Klaat in the French broadsheet Le Monde. Kroubo Dagnini delivered his insights on the topic. In November 2018, Unesco has declared reggae as an 'intangible heritage site', J. He regularly gives national and international conferences on reggae and jamaican music. L'Histoire d'une résistance sonore ( Éditions du Camion blanc ). In March 2017 he was awarded by the Académie Charles Cros for his book Musiques noires. JKD also co-wrote a documentary on reggae, "Le Souffle du reggae", directed by Jérémie Cuvillier and broadcast in 2016 on France Ô.
In 2013, he co-wrote a book with American artist Lee Jaffe, Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973-1976, revealing, among other things, precious details about the daily life of the band in Hope Road and Trench Town at that time, the links Bob Marley had with the local Mafia, and the 1976 smuggling operation that raised money to fund Peter Tosh groundbreaking album Legalize It. He is the author of numerous books and articles and has also translated the biography of Lee Scratch Perry written by journalist David Katz. He is a Jamaican popular music specialist and an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary Political Studies at the University of Orléans (CEPOC). Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini is a French scholar, he holds a PhD in Anglophone studies from the University Bordeaux Montaigne.