Later it became popular with many skinheads. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. The disruption this caused to the private lives of the band members was the primary reason to split up in 1984.Įrnst Jansz: keyboards, vocals In the first half of the eighties up to the disbanding in 1984, Doe Maar's music and the looks of especially Vrienten and Jansz caused a popularity among young girls in particular, that could only be described as Beatlesque. ![]() a new album and 16 sold-out shows at the Ahoy' Rotterdam), 2008, and from 2011 on (incl. It had short reunions in 1999-2000 (incl. Doe Maar formed in 1978 by Ernst Jansz and Piet Dekker.
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