Tag Archives: Reggae-Pop

A vocalist who phone calls her music “tropical pop,” Hollie Cook’s tracks certainly are a light but relaxing blend of contemporary pop and vintage reggae affects, ideally suitable for Cook’s supple, sensuous tone of voice. Cook certainly gets the genes to get a profession in music — her dad Paul …

Canadian rapper Snow scored among 1993’s biggest strikes with his solitary “The Informer.” His patois-laced track soared in the pop and R&B graphs, even though just hardcore reggae listeners could understand it with out a lyric translation sheet. The recording 12 Ins of Snow also do well, with the next …

Theirs may be the best musical relationship, a collaboration that, once formed, re-etched the landscape of not only Jamaican music, however the whole world’s. Such hyperbole is certainly oftentimes rolled out by promotion devices whenever two musical abilities come together, however in the situation of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist …

Metal Pulse were among Britain’s ideal reggae rings, rivaled just by Aswad with regards to creative and business achievement. Generally a protest-minded Rastafarian clothing, Metal Pulse began playing authentic root base reggae with details of jazz and Latin music, and gained a substantial target audience among white U.K. punks aswell. …

b. 1978, Manchester, Jamaica, Western Indies. Cecile released her 1st documenting when she was simply 15. Her preliminary foray in to the music market was fulfilled with indifference, although her follow-up, ‘Defeat Of My Center’, documented with Michael ‘Ibo’ Cooper of UNDER-DEVELOPED, introduced her to some wider audience. To determine …

Beginning as more of a collective than a genuine rock band, Continue to Flyin’ may be the brainchild of singer/songwriter and person in indie pop group Experts from the Hemisphere Sean Rawls, who shaped it in past due 2004 in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA after relocating there from Athens, Georgia, …

Pan-cultural reggae collective the Sunshiners reunited saxophonist Philippe “Feal” Lerouzic and drummer Gaël “Chewinoo” Chosson, who previously collaborated within the likeminded French group Mister Gang. Throughout a 2001 tour prevent within the South Pacific isle of Vanuatu, Lerouzic and Chosson befriended regional performers Gero Iaviniau, John Kapala, Jake Moses, and …

The oldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita, Ziggy Marley was the natural heir towards the throne remaining vacant by his father’s untimely death in 1981. Alongside backing music group the Melody Manufacturers, a unit composed of his siblings, he successfully continued the custom of interacting …

The Jamaican reggae jazz band Zap Pow was formed in 1970 by David Madden (trumpet), Mike Williams (bass), and Dwight Pinkney (guitar), and afterwards expanded to add Glen DaCosta (tenor sax), Danny McFarlane (organ), Joe McCormack (trombone), and Potential Edwards (drums). Edwards departed the music group in 1977 and was …

A thrilling, persistent singer from Dominica whose tale should inspire anyone who would like to be a saving designer. Nasio financed his 1st recording, created, financed, advertised, and distributed it himself. A plantation young man from Bagatell/Carte-Bois, in Dominica, Nasio Fontaine may be the youngest of seven siblings. A one …