Clifton Dillon

CTL-E-0407 · Person · unspecified

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Jamaican producer Clifton Dillon relocated to Chicago and created the Solid Gold sound system before later producing dancehall artists including Shabba Ranks, Patra, and Mad Cobra.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-092; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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