Blue plaque for reggae sound system pioneer
People's Sound Records is now run by Mr Von Adams' family and friends
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One of London's reggae pioneers is due to receive a blue heritage plaque ahead of this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival.
Barrington Von Adams, better known as Daddy Vego, founded his People's Sound System and People's Sound Record Shop in Notting Hill after arriving in the UK from Jamaica in 1956.
After playing for seven years at the Roaring Twenties Club in London's West End, he became a central force in the country's emerging reggae scene.
The plaque is being awarded by the Nubian Jak Community Trust which says it is "the only commemorative plaque and sculpture scheme focused on memorialising the historic contributions of black and minority ethnic people in Britain and beyond".
The west London shop set up by Mr Von Adams, who died in 2016 aged 74, is now run by family and friends.
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