Watch Pimento and Hot Pepper - The Mento Story (2017) Online Free
Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall music of today. No film has been made wholly about the subject and it is a little known genre around the world.
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