Lady G
Artist. Dancehall, roots
- Active
- 1984-present
- Sunrise
- May 7, 1968, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Jamaica
- Also known as
- Janice Fyffe
Lady G (Janice Fyffe) is a deejay who came to prominence with Gussie Clarke in the late 1980s and became one of the most consistent women at the mic, known for thoughtful cultural and ghetto-reality lyrics rather than slackness.
She grew up in Dela Vega City, Spanish Town, as a neighbor of Papa San and his brother Dirtsman, and watched San write lyrics and deejay on the local sound. After a Spanish Town talent show, Daddy Meekie took her to Black Scorpio, where she deejayed on the sound, and Jack Scorpio produced her first record, "Ghetto Rock," in 1984; she credits the deejay Sassafrass with her name.
"Nuff Respect" (1988), cut for Clarke when she was about nineteen, was a number one and a women's anthem, and it took her abroad. Of "If I Was a Gal" she said, "It's not the name that they call the women, it's the way they express it." With Papa San she recorded "Twice My Age" for Clarke and "Legal Rights," a saga of domestic tension, for Winston Riley; "Round Table Talk" (1990), with San again, was her biggest success. In the 1990s she joined Fatis Burrell's Xterminator, voicing social commentary over his best riddims, though Sizzla and Luciano overshadowed her there; God Daughter (1995) was produced by Burrell, and "Woman," with Marcia Griffiths, was a high point of Donovan Germain's Penthouse. In 2000 "Girls Like Us," with Crissy D and the British garage producers B-15 Project, was a hit in Britain.
Last updated November 5, 2026
Connections
- Fatis Burrell (producer)
- Donovan Germain (producer)
- Winston Riley (producer)
- Gussie Clarke (producer)
- Jack Scorpio (producer)
- Marcia Griffiths (collaborator)
- Shabba Ranks (collaborator)
- Sizzla (labelmate)
- Papa San (collaborator)
Notes
- Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 342-43, 370.
- "Nuff Respect for Lady G!," Jamaica Observer, September 17, 2022, https://jamaicaobserver.com/2022/09/16/nuff-respect-for-lady-g. "Lady G Still Gets 'Nuff Respect'," Jamaica Gleaner, July 18, 2026, https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20260718/lady-g-still-gets-nuff-respect.
- "Nuff Respect for Lady G!" Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 307-8.
- "Lady G: Don't Call Her Gal," interview by M. Peggy Quattro, Reggae Report 12, no. 9 (1994), https://reggaereport.com/lady-g-dont-call-her-gal-v1209-1994/.
- Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 302, 308; "Nuff Respect for Lady G!"
- Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 329, 342-43, 356, 370-71.
- "Nuff Respect for Lady G!" The Observer gives the British chart peak as number seven.
