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Article: Funky legacy of Grace's island
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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As disco died in the late Seventies, no one saw a Caribbean
backwater as the new home of dance. Then Ms Jones, and Sly and
Robbie, came. By KEVIN LE GENDRE
The Bahamas is generally not seen as the musical hotbed of the
Caribbean. It hasn't produced a Bob Marley, David Rudder or Rihanna.
However, 10 miles west of the city of Nassau, on New Providence, one
of the 29 inhabited islands in the Bahamas, lies Compass Point. It's
a string of huts and cottages painted lavender, teal and tangerine,
overlooking two coves bordered by white sand.
Opposite the tiny resort is Compass Point Studios. It was here
that some of the most progressive, idiosyncratic dance music of the
Eighties was made, a body of ...