Junie Rankin and DJ Ade
Junie Rankin (June Reid) and DJ Ade (Lynda Rosenior-Patten) founded Nzinga Soundz in the mid-1980s. It became one of the UK's longest-running all-women sound systems, in a culture run almost entirely by men. June Reid, also a cultural historian and researcher, died on 12 September 2025, aged 67.
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One of the UK's longest-running all-women sound systems, founded in the mid-1980s by DJ Ade (Lynda Rosenior-Patten) and Junie Rankin (June Reid). June Reid died in…
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