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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Jun 14, 2017 |
| Compared to a number of his contemporaries Delroy Wilson never seemed to be really respected or recognised outside of the traditional reggae audience. But he is one of the greatest singers and songwriters to ever come out of Jamaica… a country justifiably famed for its singers and songwriters. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Jun 7, 2017 |
| The world’s top selling Jamaican artist Shaggy has achieved more UK & USA Number One hits than any other reggae act… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: May 24, 2017 |
| Bob Andy is one of the finest singers and songwriters ever and his work, both lyrically and rhythmically, forms an integral part of reggae's musical vocabulary. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Nov 30, 2016 |
| Legendary bass guitarist, musical arranger and record producer who has played on thousands, literally, of Jamaican hits as one of The Hippy Boys, The Aggrovators & The Upsetters and has also produced hit records for his own Defenders, FAM’S and Cobra labels. Family Man is renowned worldwide for his integral role in shaping the musical direction of Bob Marley & The Wailers throughout their incredible international career. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Nov 22, 2016 |
| The beautiful rock steady music created by Lynn Taitt & The Jets between 1966 and 1968 provided the basis for all that was to follow… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: May 24, 2016 |
| Slim Smith will forever remain the genuine Jamaican music aficionado’s favourite singer; two of his original compositions, ‘(I’ll) Never Let Go’ (aka ‘The Answer’) and ‘My Conversation’, are among the most versioned ever in the history of reggae... |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: May 17, 2016 |
| “My songs are based on farming and not about hype... I’m a Bobo and people know what I stand for.” Jah Mason |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: May 10, 2016 |
| A UK based group who would never, and could never, be restricted by any boundaries... national, international or musical. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: May 2, 2016 |
| The devotional Rastafarian hymns of praise of Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus came to prominence in the
mid-seventies although their Nyahbinghi based drumming and chanting had exerted a powerful influence on Jamaican music during the previous decade...
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Apr 15, 2016 |
| A singularly successful singer, producer and record shop proprietor who, over the past fifty years, really has seen it all… been there, done that and his music has gone all the way round the world and back again. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Oct 30, 2015 |
| Reggae, and dancehall reggae in particular, is infamous for its machismo stance and sexist outlook and to describe the opportunities for female artists as ‘limited’ in the male dominated world of Jamaican music is a massive understatement. A select few have managed to break through the glass ceiling but Macka Diamond has appears to have smashed it... |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Oct 13, 2015 |
| A founding father of Jamaican music in the late fifties whose career went from strength to strength over a period of sixty years and who eventually reached a significantly wider audience than many of his original contemporaries... |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: Jun 22, 2015 |
| The first UK based deejays to break into the National Charts Eastwood & Saint translated the language of Jamaican deejays into an international style that everyone could understand and anyone could join in with... |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Added: May 29, 2015 |
| Uzziah ’Cool Stick’/‘Sticky’ Thompson has appeared on more records than any other Jamaican artist. He was not only a world class percussionist but also an innovative foundation deejay yet the name of Sticky Thompson will still probably be unfamiliar to anyone apart from reggae music obsessives… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Nov 28, 2014 |
| From ‘Ten Year Old Deejay Wonder’ to ‘King Of The Dance Hall’… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Oct 21, 2014 |
| John Holt is rightly revered as Jamaica’s “finest interpreter of love ballads” but he could just as easily be regarded as one of its finest rock steady singers with The Paragons, one of its foundation vocalists at Studio One, or one of its best ever roots singers through his releases for Channel One in the seventies and Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes in the eighties… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Aug 8, 2014 |
| One of the most memorable of the many marvellous vocal groups who came to prominence in the mid sixties with the advent of rock steady… |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Date Updated: Jul 24, 2014 |
| The competition does not get much tougher than in the world of Jamaican dancehall music but, occasionally, an artist comes through who stands head and shoulders above the competition. “The people want the real stuff… and that’s where I fall in. “ Vybz Kartel |
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Text by Dub Store Sound Inc,
Date Updated: Jul 2, 2014 |
| Nick Manasseh is one of the pioneers of UK Dub/Reggae scene who popularised a now-familiar phrase "UK Steppers." |
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Text by Jeremy Collingwood
Date Updated: Jun 23, 2014 |
| A truly mysterious Rastaman who musical flowering in the late 1970 saw only a handful of singles emerge and a brief glimpse of the man himself in the Island film Rockers. He only ever pressed small numbers of copies of each single and hence they were difficult to find, even at the time release, which only added to the mystery of the man. |
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