Stone Love

Gigs at Uppsala Reggae Festival:

Year	Speldag	Speltid	Scen	Gallery
2010	Saturday	01:00 - 03:00	Tent Stage	Inga bilder

There are over 200 sound systems in Jamaica to date, but when the question is asked as to which is the champion and reigning king of them all, without hesitation the response is Stone Love. Stone Love made their entry into the dancehall business in 1972 and for the past 34 years it has been the sound systems with the most potent and magnetic force to pull crowds and cork any dancehall.

Stone Love is the brainchild of Winston WeePow Powell. During his childhood years, WeePow wanted more than anything else in the world to be the owner of his very own sound system. An ardent lover of music and growing up in Molynes Road, an area known for its regular dancehall sessions, no dance ever missed him. WeePows mentor, singer Hopeton Lewis, who lived in the same yard as he, took him to dances everywhere which was what the young sound-inclined lad wanted.

WeePows dream started to become a reality at the age of 17 when Denton Henry, a technician who operated an electrical shop in his yard, told him that he had a component set for sale. For months, WeePow worked relentlessly at his trade in order to come up with the money. WeePow purchased the set and continued to add pieces of equipment such as records, amplifiers, racks, and boxes to his component set that would one day become a full scale sound system. By the late 60s to early 70s, WeePow along with his cousin Charlie Reid and his brother Cecil Powell and a friend Winston Rooms, set up a neat little sound system and tried their hands at playing at a few small sessions and parties. It was 1972.

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