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U-Roy obituary Peter Mason © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Corio/Redferns Of the many innovations Jamaican music has offered to the world over the past 50 years, the lyrical art of “toasting” has had perhaps the most profound and long-lasting impact. A stylised, poetical form of chatting and scatting, it was brought to prominence in the early 1970s by the reggae deejay U-Roy, who has died aged 78, and has fed into many musical forms, from hip-hop to grime. U-...

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Legendary Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall toaster U-Roy has died at the age of 78.