IN 1992, deejay Shabba Ranks was riding high, looking to break big in the United States after five years of dominating Jamaican charts. Just one year earlier, he had secured a recording deal with ...

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon (aka Shabba Ranks) deserves his title, The Emperor, due to his groundbreaking achievements. In 1991, he signed a recording deal with Epic Records which helped him ...

The reported smoking contest between legendary singers, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon who is also known as Shaba Ranks has generated some reactions on social media. It was ...

In 2010, Shabba Ranks is mostly remembered outside dancehall circles not so much as a person or an artist, but as a cultural moment, like new jack swing or rave gear. He was a skit on In Living Color ...

The producer born Robert Dixon was responsible for hits like the Shabba Ranks song “Dem Bow,” which became a staple of global pop. By Jon Pareles Robert Dixon, who as Bobby Digital became one of ...

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon OD (born 17 January 1966) better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a Jamaican Grammy Award-winning dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was ...