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Love songs include Hand It Over (with The Horsemouth Wallace Band) and Natural High (with The Wailers Band), Gee Baby (with Skin Flesh & Bones and I Wanna Know (with Chinna's High Times Band). Their music encompasses and often fuses many genres within reggae (e.g. roots, dancehall , ragga, ska , dub and rock steady ), as well as R&B , soul ...
He is a Jamaican reggae singer known within the Caribbean and internationally for his music that is focused on messages about education and uplifting women. [1] Some of Warrior King's best known hits include "Virtuous Woman" (2001), "Hold Da Faith" (2005), "My Life" (2005), "Can't Get Me Down" (2005) and "Wanna Give You Love" (2009). [ 2 ] "
Jimmy Cliff was born James Chambers on 30 July 1944 in Saint James, Colony of Jamaica. [4] He began writing songs while still at primary school in St. James, listening to a neighbour's sound system. When Chambers was 14, his father took him to Kingston, where he would take up the stage name Jimmy Cliff. [5]
Horatious Adolphus "Pat" Kelly (6 August 1944 – 16 July 2019) [1] was a prolific, influential Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and innovative, groundbreaking sound engineer working with King Tubby, Bunny Lee and Scientist (musician), whose career began in the mid-1960s. [2]
Dancehall music, also called ragga, is a style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and '90s. It was also originally called Bashment music when Jamaican dancehalls began to gain popularity.
This Is Reggae Music: The Golden Era 1960–1975 is a reggae retrospective anthology issued as a 4-CD box set in 2004 by Trojan Records. [1] [2] [3] The anthology, which was compiled by Colin Escott and Bas Hartong, is arranged in chronological order and features tracks by various artists, starting with mento and ska from the first half of the 1960s, then progressing to the slower rhythms of ...
In 2016, she released a five-song EP, Take Me Back, produced by the Canadian Mitch Girio, followed by the complete album The Girl Who Cried and in 2017 released a reggae version of "Love Story", a duet with Jamaican veteran Ken Boothe. [10] Cadogan continues to appear regularly in the UK, at festivals and other events.
Sweet Jamaica is a studio album by a Jamaican reggae singer, Mr. Vegas, released on May 29, 2012, under Mr. Vegas Music/VPAL. This album was released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of reggae music and of Jamaican independence. In an interview with the Miami New Times, Mr. Vegas says "Mikey Bennett had approached me about going in a different ...