Ranking Joe
Ranking Joe
Latest Release
- Armageddon
- June 2025
- • 2 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Rastaman Talk | ||
| 2 | Natty The Collie Smoker | ||
| 3 | Natty Dread DubWise | ||
| 4 | Armageddon [Dub Version] | ||
| 5 | International Style Ska (feat. Bongoroll, Pere Miró & Pablo Martín) |
Albums
Feb 2025 • 1 song
Feb 2025 • 1 song
Feb 2025 • 1 song
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About
Biography
Reggae DJ Ranking Joe was born Joseph Jackson in Kingston on June 1, 1959. Launching his recording career right around the time that the reggae/dub movement began sweeping the world during the mid-'70s, renowned producer Coxsone Dodd took Joe under his wing as he landed a DJ spot with a soundsystem called El Paso Hi-Fi. With Dodd overseeing Joe's early sessions, a debut single was issued in 1975 (under the name of Little Joe), "Gun Court." From there, Joe branched out and worked with a variety of other reggae producers (including Bunny Lee, Watty Burnett, and Derrick Howard), ...