Jean "Binta" Breeze

Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021)Sheri Elaine Metzger, "Jean “Binta” Breeze 1956–", Contemporary Black Biography, 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 4 March 2013. was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller. Some think she was the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actress, and teacher. She was born in Hanover, Jamaica.

Breeze died on 4 August 2021 in Sandy Bay, Jamaica from problems caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 65.

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