{"id":14080,"date":"2026-01-26T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14080"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:47:11","slug":"sly-dunbar-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/26\/sly-dunbar-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly Dunbar Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/sly-dunbar-dead-1236697086\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sly Dunbar Dies: Drummer Of Celebrated Reggae Rhythm Duo Sly &amp; Robbie Was 73<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/greg-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greg Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SLY DUNBAR THE GREATEST REGGAE DRUMMER OF ALL TIME\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pGn_9coXVxw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sly-dunbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sly Dunbar<\/a>, whose drumming with bassist Robbie Shakespeare made for an all-but-unrivaled reggae rhythm section utilized by such greats as Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, has died. He was 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Lowell Fillmore Dunbar on May 10, 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica, Dunbar began playing drums at a young age, joining his first band at 15 and, in 1972, becoming friends with bassist Shakespeare. Through early gigs with the band The Revolutionaries (also known as the Aggrovators) Sly &amp; Robbie, as they became known, laid a foundation for the Jamaican reggae that would soon explode in worldwide popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/sly-dunbar-dead-1236697086\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Sly Dunbar Dies: Drummer Of Celebrated Reggae Rhythm Duo Sly &amp; Robbie Was 73 By\u00a0Greg Evans Sly Dunbar, whose drumming with bassist Robbie Shakespeare made for an all-but-unrivaled reggae rhythm section utilized by such greats as Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, has died. He was 73. Born Lowell Fillmore Dunbar on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14081,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions\/14081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}