Ska was the precursor to reggae. It was mento first, and then soldiers stationed in America used radios, tuning into Jazz and the Jamaicans picked up horns and added that to the mento and calypso style folk music to make ska. Then rock steady came along which was a lot more danceable. Toots & The Maytals first used the term reggae in their track ''Do The Reggay'' and the rest is history. I prefer to denote genres to their various sub-genres and refer to reggae as the overarching genre and diaspora of Jamaica, with the little sub-genres like mento and ska directly referred to because reggae is more than a genre of music, and when you collect reggae there is a lot to amass. I have over one hundred reggae CDs in my collection. There are many different artists with completely unique styles of singing and music.
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