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The Fabulous Five Inc. (also known as Fab 5) is a reggae and soca band formed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Over a 45-year career, they have released 26 albums, had many number 1 hits in Jamaica, and were the featured musicians on Johnny Nash's platinum album I Can See Clearly Now.
Ernie Smith (singer) Ernie Smith appearing at Jamaica Awareness Association of California (JAAC) 25th Anniversary event in Los Angeles on 5 November 2011. Ernie Smith (born Glenroy Anthony Michael Archangelo Smith, [1] May 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, with a deep baritone voice, who had his greatest success in the late 1960s and ...
Fans around the world expressed their grief, and he received a state funeral in Jamaica. The greatest hits album Legend was released in 1984 and became the best-selling reggae album of all time. [17] Marley also ranks as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of more than 75 million records worldwide. [18]
Exodus. (Bob Marley and the Wailers album) Exodus is the ninth studio album by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers, first released in June 1977 through Island Records, following Rastaman Vibration (1976). The album's production has been characterized as laid-back with pulsating bass beats and an emphasis on piano, trumpet and guitar.
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.It was released on 7 May 1984 by Island Records. [2] It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with more than 12 million copies sold in the US, more than 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the 17th best-selling album [3]) and an estimated 25 million ...
Professional ratings. Mr Soul of Jamaica is an album by Jamaican rocksteady singer Alton Ellis. It contains twelve tracks recorded between 1967 and 1970 at Duke Reid 's Treasure Isle Recording Studios in Kingston, Jamaica and was produced by Reid [2] and released on his Treasure Isle label in 1974. [3] Although this was his only album for the ...
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (known as Byron Lee's Dragonaires after Lee's death and now The Dragonaires) are a Jamaican ska, calypso and soca band. The band played a crucial pioneering role in bringing Caribbean music to the world. Byron Lee died on 4 November 2008, after suffering from cancer for a sustained ...
Released: September 1975. Label: Island/Mango. Formats: LP, MC, 8-track. Revision of eponymous studio album, adding tracks from In the Dark and the single "Pressure Drop". 164. 4 [A] The Best of Toots and the Maytals. Released: 1979. Label: Trojan.