Jérémie K. Dagnini
Jérémie K. Dagnini is a French academic, specializing in Jamaican popular music. Biography. Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini is a French scholar, he holds a PhD in Anglophone studies from the University Bordeaux Montaigne. He is a Jamaican popular music specialist and an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary Political Studies at the University of Orléans (CEPOC). He is the author of numerous books and articles and has also translated the biography of Lee Scratch Perry written by journalist David Katz. In 2013, he co-wrote a book with American artist Lee Jaffe, "Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973 -1976", revealing, among other things, precious details about the daily life of the band in Hope Road and Trench Town at that time, the links Bob Marley had with the local Mafia, and the 1976 smuggling operation that raised money to fund Peter Tosh groundbreaking album "Legalize It". JKD also co-wrote a documentary on reggae, "Le Souffle du reggae", directed by Jérémie Cuvillier and broadcast in 2016 on France Ô. In March 2017 he was awarded by the Académie Charles Cros for his book "Musiques noires. L'Histoire d'une résistance sonore" (). He regularly gives national and international conferences on reggae  and jamaican music. In November 2018, Unesco has declared reggae as an 'intangible heritage site', J. Kroubo Dagnini delivered his insights on the topic. More recently, he gave his views on the popular Jamaican expression Bumbo Klaat in the French broadsheet "Le Monde". JKD is of Ivorian descent through his father side.