Female Pioneers of Reggae
A Free ExhibitionInspired by the personal archive and story of Sutara Gayle, aka Lorna Gee, Female Pioneers of Reggae is a new exhibition showing rare and unseen photographs capturing women in the Reggae scene in 1980s UK.
The exhibition celebrates the deejays & singers who created the sounds and paved the way for future generations of artists, alongside the women who made the scene: those who frequented the blues dances, bought the records and wore their iconic looks.
Born and raised in Brixton, Lorna Gee made a name for herself on the male-dominated Sound Systems of South London, from Nasty Rockers to Saxon and Coxsone. She signed to Mad Professor’s Ariwa Label with her first song Three Weeks Gone (Mi Giro), her hit single Got To Find A Way topped the reggae charts for 6 weeks in the UK, and she went on to become one of the UK’s leading female figures in reggae and one of the Queens of Lovers Rock.
