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Gospel reggae is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica, mixing reggae rhythms with Christian-themed lyrics. Several reggae artists, many of whom were previously part of the Rastafari movement , have converted to Christianity and adopted gospel reggae as their primary style.
In 2020, Gramps Morgan released several solo singles including "Runaway Bay" and "People Like You." The latter was nominated in 2021 for three International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) in the categories of Best Song, Best Crossover Song and Best Gospel Song, and won the award for Best Gospel Song.
Kerron was a part of the Jamaican gospel group Perpetual Praise Team from 2003-2009. In October 2007 Kerron received The Jamaica Observer Teenage Choice Awards for Gospel Artiste Of The Year In 2012 she won a Video Web Award for best reggae gospel song of the year for "God Is Not Done With Me Yet", [ 4 ] from her album I'm Alive (2013).
Papa San sponsors a concert known as Papa San and Friends, to raise funds for orphanages in rural Jamaica. Since becoming a Christian, he has continued to produce his roots reggae sound, but with the message of Christ to the beat instead of his previously popular secular music.
Jesse Royal (Jesse David Leroi Grey) was born in St James Parish, Jamaica to a family of Maroon ancestry and Rasta faith. [3] The Royal family relocated to Kingston in 1997 where his father took a job with a telecommunications firm. [4]
Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley (March 12, 1991 – December 26, 2022) was a Jamaican reggae artist. [1] He is a son of Stephen Marley and grandson of reggae musician Bob Marley . Career
Tommy Cowan CD (born Thomas Lincoln Cowan, 6 April 1946, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a producer and singer, initially working in reggae but later concentrating on gospel, who has been involved in the music business since the 1960s. [1] [2] He is also an ordained Gospel minister and a justice of the peace.
Carlene Davis (born c. 1953) is a Jamaican gospel and reggae singer active since the 1970s. Successful since the early 1980s as a reggae artist, she survived cancer in the mid-1990s, after which she dedicated her career to gospel music.