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Reggae Report was founded by M. Peggy Quattro, an American reggae fan, writer, and former assistant manager to Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs, and Jimmy Cliff; and Kingston-born Michael "Zappow" Williams, acclaimed musician, producer, and songwriter, renowned for the band Zap Pow and writing the anthem "This is Reggae Music."
Reggae (/ ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. [1] A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.
Black Music (Black Music & Jazz Review from April 1978) was a pioneering British music magazine, published monthly. The first issue, edited by Alan Lewis, came out in December 1973 and the last in April 1984. [1] It was the first publication in the United Kingdom to write about reggae as a serious cultural phenomenon and also the first to cover ...
Every year since 1926, Black History Month has been honored in February — but did you know that since 2008, February The post Explore reggae music’s place in Black history with Noel Cymone ...
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Roger Steffens (born June 17, 1942) is an American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer, and producer. [1] Six rooms of his home in Los Angeles house reggae archives, which include the world's largest collection of Bob Marley material.
Hélène Lee is a French journalist who specialises in Jamaican and West African music. She started as a journalist in 1979 for Libération and was one of the first to defend the world music in France. Her early works on African artists helped establish artist like Salif Keita, Alpha Blondy, Ray Lema or Tiken Jah Fakoly.
According to 2006's Caribbean Popular Music, the studio became widely known after the 1976 release of The Mighty Diamonds' Right Time. [4] Other artists to have successful recordings at the studio include Horace Andy , Leroy Smart , The Wailing Souls , The Meditations , Ernest Wilson , The Jays , and Jimmy Cliff , whose Follow My Mind album was ...