Jamaican-born London-based reggae artiste, Jah Shaka has been reported dead. There is no information about his marital status. Information about whether or not he had a wife at the time of death is not known yet. But it is known that he was survived by his son, Young Warrior, who is also a record producer.
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His age and cause of death are unknown. However, it is very well known that he was a pioneer in dub and reggae in the United Kingdom.
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“When people left Africa for the Caribbean, all they could bring with them was their music, their songs and their memories from home. So, over the years, this is all that people had to keep them together. In the 1950s and 1960s in London, there were house parties – 50, 60 people with only record players. It helped families know other families which was important at that time because the people were so forced to be segregated,” he shared in a 2014 interview.


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