King Tubby has been dead for fifteen years, the victim of a still-unsolved murder in Jamaica, yet he remains among the most respected figures in reggae, credited with the innovations that gave ...

Sound engineer and radio repairman King Tubby had worked on the sound system scene in Kingston, Jamaica – where competing groups of DJs would hold street parties blazing out ska and reggae – since the ...

An early pioneer of the Jamaican sound system culture and a studio engineer par excellence, Osbourne Ruddock - widely known and revered as King Tubby - was in his time without equal when it came to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They say the pioneers get the arrows and the settlers get the land, yet King Tubby was always lord of his ...