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  • Active: '90s
  • Genres: Reggae
  • Instrument: Vocals Representative Album: "Tracks"

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Jean "Binta" Breeze has been a performance poet, playwright, actress, dancer and choreographer. Her books include Riddym Ravings, published in 1988 by Race Today; Spring Cleaning, published in 1992 by Virago; and On the Edge of the Island, published in 1996 by Bloodaxe. An album, Tracks, released in 1990 and produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson, combined unaccompanied readings and pieces recorded with accompaniment by the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, led by the Matumbi founding member.

Breeze attracted her earliest attention as a dub poet shortly after coming to England for the first time in the early '80s. In the years since, she's divided her time shuttling between her homeland in Jamaica and the U.K. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide
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Jean "Binta" Breeze

Pictured in 2007
Born 1956
Jamaica
Occupation Writer, dub poet
Genres Poetry

Jean "Binta" Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. She has worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and teacher. She was awarded in 2003 a Nesta Fellowship of two years, to be held in Cambridge.

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Biography

Breeze was born and raised in rural Jamaica, and studied at the Jamaican School of Drama in Kingston.[1] While there she was instrumental in forming the 'Sistren' women's theatre company.[1] She came to London in 1986, at the invitation of Linton Kwesi Johnson;[1] She taught Theatre Studies at Brixton College. She has since also written for drama in various media. Her first book of poetry, Ryddim Ravings, was published in 1988 by the Race Today cooperative.[1] She went on to write the screenplay for Hallelujah Anyhow, a co-production of the British Film Institute and Channel 4.[1] She also released several albums, contributing to Woman's Talk (1986), and recording Tracks in 1991 with Dennis Bovell's Dub Band.[1]

She suffers from schizophrenia and has written poetry about what she herself calls "madness." In April 2006, on the BBC Radio program "The Interview," Breeze gave her perspective on mental illness and advocated increased attention to the needs of schizophrenics who do not have a "talent" like hers.

Works

Books of poetry

  • Answers (1983)
  • Riddym Ravings and Other Poems (1988) edited by Mervyn Morris
  • Spring Cleaning (1992)
  • On the Edge of an Island (1997)
  • Song Lines (1997)
  • The Arrival of Brighteye and Other Poems (2000)
  • The Fifth Figure (2006)

Albums

  • Tracks (1991), LKJ
  • Riding on de Riddym (1997), 57 Productions

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9, p. 36

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