Cut from a different cloth
A woman in the man’s world that is Jamaican soundsystem culture, Toronto’s Tasha Rozez is a force to be reckoned with. From the beginning, the mobile discotheque soundsystems that form the foundation of reggae music have been almost entirely male-dominated. But once Ms. Rozez gets on the mic and in front of a crowd, she challenges all assumptions and expectations. Rozez has known to be ready for a fight from the beginning. “When I had my first contract,” she remembers, “I put a mission statement at the top that basically said, I’m the same as my male counterparts and I can do exactly the same thing that they do.”