b. Ann Swinton. Ranking Ann came to prominence on her brother’s Black Rock sound system playing in and around London. She began her recording career with an uncompromising debut, ‘Liberated Woman’. This resulted in her being categorized as the music’s feminist DJ. When labelled as such, she announced, ‘No Rasta me’s a individualist’. In 1982 she released ‘Love On A Mountain Top’ but returned to her revolutionary style for ‘Dangerous MC’.

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