Grammacks

Grammacks
Origin	Saint-Joseph, Dominica
Genres	Kadans Cadence-lypso World music
Years active	Early 1970 – Present
Members	Jeff Joseph Georges Thomas Anthony Serrant Anthony George Ellon Rodniy Mc Donald Prosper Anthony Pierre

Grammacks was a Cadence-lypso group from Dominica.

The band is from Saint-Joseph, a village from Dominica. The lead singer Jefferson "Jeff" Joseph and keyboard player McDonald "Markie" Prosper along with the other members were former students of the Dominica Grammar School and St Mary's Academy, hence the name Grammacks. The band rose to fame in the early seventies and eighties with hits like “Mis Debaz”, and “Soukouyant”.

Grammacks and Exile One were influential figures in the promotion of cadence-lypso in the 1970s. They were an inspiration for the French Antilles band Kassav and the emergence of zouk in the 1980s. The full-horn section kadans band Exile One led by Gordon Henderson, and Grammacks (led by Jeff Joseph) introduced the newly arrived synthesizers to their music that other young cadence or compas bands from Haiti (mini-jazz) and the French Antilles emulated in the 1970s.

Grammacks rose to prominence in the 1970s to the early 1980s with a Super Bowl performance. They headlined the first World Creole Music Festival in Dominica in 1997. Creative differences and financial mismanagement caused the band to break up with members pursuing individual solo projects. Jeff Joseph later formed Volt Face and Grammacks New Generation.

Jeff Joseph "Jeff Joe" of Saint Joseph, Dominica was the leader and founder of Dominica's cadence musical group "Grammacks". His musical career with Grammacks began in the early 1970s in Guadeloupe.

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