Reggae Lane
Reggae Lane is a roadway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that runs east from Oakwood Avenue, behind a strip of buildings on the south side of Eglinton Avenue in the Little Jamaica ethnic enclave. For most of its history it had no official name, but the imminent arrival of Oakwood LRT station helped trigger its 2015 official naming. The neighbourhood near Reggae Lane was recognized as a centre for reggae recording as early as the late 1960s. Toronto Transit Commission chair Josh Colle, the councillor for that part of the city, played a prominent role in the lane's renaming, and in the allocation of funds for clean-up and redevelopment. He asserted that the neighbourhood around the Laneway is the largest centre for the recording of reggae music, outside of Jamaica. On September 19, 2015, Colle introduced a mural of Bob Marley, Haile Selassie, and the Lion of Judah, by Adrian Hayles. The ''Jamaica Gleaner'' described it as an instance of a foreign country showing respect ...
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Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audienc