Category: Reggae
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Chaka Demus & Pliers
About Chaka Demus & Pliers are a Jamaican reggae duo made up of deejay Chaka Demus and singer Pliers, known for their hits “Tease Me” and “Murder She Wrote”. As a duo, they enjoyed more commercial success with mainstream pop fans after their collaboration began in the early 1990s than either had in their previous…
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Hollie Cook
About Hollie Cook is an English singer and keyboardist. She was part of the final line-up of all-female punk/reggae band the Slits. From 2010, Cook has also had a career as solo artist working with producer and songwriter Prince Fatty. In 2011, she released her first and self-titled reggae album Hollie Cook. She calls her…
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Stonebwoy
About Livingstone Etse Satekla, better known by his stage name Stonebwoy, is a Ghanaian Afropop, Afro-dancehall and reggae musician. Albums/Songs: 5th Dimension Anloga Junction Call to Action: What’s your favorite Stonebwoy song? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
About Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Albums/Songs: Songs of Freedom Splish for My Splash – Soca Jad Demo’s Original Jamaican Vibrations Old Singles 1962-1974 The First Ska Singles 1962 Collection Unreleased Acoustic Tapes Reggae…
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Lucky Dube
About Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His record sales across the world earned him the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. In his lyrics, Dube discussed issues affecting South Africans and Africans in general to a global audience. He recorded 22 albums in a…
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Culture
About Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Albums/Songs: Lion Rock Two Sevens Clash Stand…
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Alborosie
About Alberto D’Ascola, better known by his stage name Alborosie, is an Italian reggae artist. He is sometimes called the “Italian Reggae Ambassador”. Albums/Songs: Back a Yard Dub Unbreakable Rough Tune Soul Pirate Freedom In Dub Escape From Babylon to the Kingdom of Zion Dub for the Radicals Destiny Dub Pirate Shengen Dub / Embryonic…
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Koffee
About Mikayla Victoria Simpson, better known as Koffee, is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, rapper, and guitarist from Spanish Town, Jamaica. She released her debut single “Burning” in 2017, and after releasing another single the following year, she signed with Columbia Records. Her 2019 debut EP Rapture — a five-track release in which only two Reggae…
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Protoje
About Oje Ken Ollivierre, popularly known as Protoje, is a Jamaican of Afro-European heritage, a contemporary reggae singer and songwriter. His mother is Jamaican singer and lawyer Lorna Bennett, best known for her 1972 rendition of “Breakfast in Bed”. His father is a former calypso singer Mike Ollivierre from the island nation of Saint Vincent…
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Chronixx
About Jamar Rolando McNaughton, popularly known as Chronixx, is a Jamaican reggae artist. His stage name replaced the name “Little Chronicle” which he was given because of his father, the singer “Chronicle”. Chronixx and his music has been branded as a “Reggae Revival”, alongside other reggae musicians including Alborosie, Dre Island, Jah Bouks, Jah9, Protoje,…
