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Not to be confused with Disc jockey
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
.
A deejay (alternatively spelled DJ) is a reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
 or dancehall
Dancehall

Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
 musician who sings and toasts
Toasting

Toasting, Chatting, or Deejaying is the act of Speech communication or chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or Beat ....
 to an instrumental riddim
Riddim

A riddim is an instrumental version of a song, which applies to Music of Jamaica or other forms of List of Caribbean music genres. Riddims usually consist of a drum pattern and a prominent bassline....
 (rhythm).

Deejays are not to be confused with DJs from other music genres like Hip-Hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddim
Riddim

A riddim is an instrumental version of a song, which applies to Music of Jamaica or other forms of List of Caribbean music genres. Riddims usually consist of a drum pattern and a prominent bassline....
s to play are called selectors
Selector (disc jockey)

Selector is the term originally used for a reggae/dancehall disc jockey .See also*Disc jockey...
. Deejays who are more likely to sing are sometimes called singjay
Singjay

Singjaying is a Jamaican style of reggae vocals combining toasting and singing in an elastic format that encourages a lot of rhythmically compelling and texturally impressive vocal embellishments....
s.

The term deejay came about as a result of the act of some selectors (as they were called) of the 60s and 70s such as U-Roy
U-Roy

U-Roy is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting, a precursor to rapping....
 or King Stitt
King Stitt

King Stitt, born Winston Spark , is a Jamaican toasting....
 toasting to the version
Dub music

Dub is a form of music, evolved from reggae that involves revisions of existing songs. The dub sound consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, emphasizing the drum and bass frequ...
 side of popular records of the time.






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Not to be confused with Disc jockey
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
.
A deejay (alternatively spelled DJ) is a reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
 or dancehall
Dancehall

Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
 musician who sings and toasts
Toasting

Toasting, Chatting, or Deejaying is the act of Speech communication or chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or Beat ....
 to an instrumental riddim
Riddim

A riddim is an instrumental version of a song, which applies to Music of Jamaica or other forms of List of Caribbean music genres. Riddims usually consist of a drum pattern and a prominent bassline....
 (rhythm).

Deejays are not to be confused with DJs from other music genres like Hip-Hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddim
Riddim

A riddim is an instrumental version of a song, which applies to Music of Jamaica or other forms of List of Caribbean music genres. Riddims usually consist of a drum pattern and a prominent bassline....
s to play are called selectors
Selector (disc jockey)

Selector is the term originally used for a reggae/dancehall disc jockey .See also*Disc jockey...
. Deejays who are more likely to sing are sometimes called singjay
Singjay

Singjaying is a Jamaican style of reggae vocals combining toasting and singing in an elastic format that encourages a lot of rhythmically compelling and texturally impressive vocal embellishments....
s.

The term deejay came about as a result of the act of some selectors (as they were called) of the 60s and 70s such as U-Roy
U-Roy

U-Roy is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting, a precursor to rapping....
 or King Stitt
King Stitt

King Stitt, born Winston Spark , is a Jamaican toasting....
 toasting to the version
Dub music

Dub is a form of music, evolved from reggae that involves revisions of existing songs. The dub sound consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, emphasizing the drum and bass frequ...
 side of popular records of the time. The version came about when the record company produced the 45 record with the song, the flip side of which had the instrumental version of the song. This gave the deejays the chance to make up on-the-fly lyrics to the instrumental music. This occurrence gave rise to deejay toasting and the term has been used in that context ever since. Many famous selectors turned deejays include King Stur Gav, Josie Wales, Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (singer)

Charlie Chaplin is a Jamaican dancehall and ragga deejay and singer. It was common for Jamaican deejays of the era to name themselves after film stars or characters....
, and Tony Matterhorn
Tony Matterhorn

Tony Matterhorn is a popular United States dancehall deejay and selector . He is the fourth of seven children to Margie and Dufton Taylor, a singer. Matterhorn started as a back-up deejay in New York City, with King Addie's Sound system in the early 90s....
 (Deejay of the song "Dutty Wine
Dutty Wine

"Dutty Wine" is a song by dancehall artist Tony Matterhorn, and the dance of the same name is usually performed by women. The dance was created by Jamaican dancer Dyema and popularized by herself and fellow dancers from Montego Bay, Jamaica....
").

See also

  • Toasting
    Toasting

    Toasting, Chatting, or Deejaying is the act of Speech communication or chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or Beat ....
  • Dancehall
    Dancehall

    Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....