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Jamaica and winter sports don’t seem to go together, and you might think the same thing about Jamaica and Christmas music.
But, believe it or not there are a lot of Jamaican Christmas tunes.
And so, we close our program this Christmas Eve with a song by the late Alton Ellis.
The founder of the Jamaican rock steady beat died earlier this year at the age of 70.
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