Best part is, for the most part, things seem to have worked out very positively. Obviously there are millions of people who are not so sure. I believe that four years from now, most of them will be able to say things worked out reasonably well. It is not going to be easy though, no matter how talented a group of people President Obama surrounds himself with. And we are all going to have to ...
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Finally the election is over!
Gold Entertainment Launches New Music Label with Reggae.com
Gold Entertainment Launches New Music Label with Reggae.comPrint-friendly versionDiscuss this articleTORONTO, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Entertainment Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GEGP), announced today that as part of its new joint venture agreement with Reggae.com will be the launch of a new, as yet unnamed, independent music label.Gold Entertainment and Reggae.com had previously an...
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Take the reggae ride: Album a journey through reggae, roots and ska
By Lucas Peerman Pulse EditorThis CD will reinvent your idea of what you thought reggae and ska 'should' sound like by exposing you to the next evolution of creativity within the genre. All of these artists have taken ideas based on ska and reggae, and combined them with their own love of hip-hop, Latin, roots and rock music.With the above statement, producer John-Michael Vasquez describes his ...
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Reggae Rebellion
By Patrick S. Pembertonppemberton@thetribunenews.comSelwyn Brown, left, and David Hinds have been part of Steel Pulse from the beginning. The reggae veterans will perform at The Graduate in San Luis Obispo on Monday.When The Police added reggae rhythms to songs like “I Can’t Stand Losing You” or “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” chances are they were fusing a little Steel Pulse into their musi
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Uganda: Celebrating Bob Marley's Birthday
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February 11, 2007Posted to the web February 12, 2007KampalaTHE Tuff Gong reggae theme night at Ange Noir discotheque has not only made one year, but also a mark as the biggest reggae night on the entertainment scene. Jamaica and the UK bowed down and came to Kampala last Saturday to celebrate the Tuff Gong night.And since Bob Marley is credited to be the father of reggae music, icon of Rastafar...
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2006 Reggae Grammy Winner Ziggy Marley - Citizen of Earth
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Michael A Edwards - Tuesday, February 13, 2007Grammy winner Ziggy MarleyAs happy as he is about the result, Ziggy Marley is n't all that hung up on the Grammys or on awards in general."I try not to get excited or put too much emphasis on the whole award ting," he said, speaking by phone to the Observer in the wake of his announcement as the winner of what for many is still music's cherished re...
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And the 2007 Winner is ZIGGY MARLEY – Love is My Religion.
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Reggae Grammy Winners - Best Reggae Album GrammyReggae Grammy Nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy AwardsA diverse selection of artists were nominated for the music industry's most highly coveted award. A 3 time award winner (nominated as a solo artist for the first time), a controversial artist allegedly black-listed from the industry, a Hasidic Jew, a British reggae band gainfully employed as ...
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Hawaiian Music Star, Maker of Hybrid Hits, Seeks a Bigger Stage Beyond Waikiki
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February 7, 2007By NATE CHINENHONOLULU — Henry Kapono spends most Sunday afternoons here, on the beachfront patio of Duke’s Waikiki restaurant at the Outrigger Waikiki hotel. His standing engagement has become something of an island institution over the years. It’s a bar gig, maybe not what you might expect from a Hawaiian music veteran of Mr. Kapono’s stature. But he throws himself into i
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From the Underworld of Jamaica to the London Stage
By MICHAEL BRUNTON for TIME MagazineIt was a tough ticket the night the film The Harder They Come premiered at the Carib Theater in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1972. A crowd of some 10,000 turned up and a near-riot ensued. Like all those who got in, the island's Prime Minister and his wife were jammed two or more to a seat, while instead of a red carpet entrance, director Perry Henzell's wife, Sally,...
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Bob Marley's Sons to Hold JA Peace Concert
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Bob Marley JA Peace ConcertAssociated PressKINGSTON, Jamaica - Four sons of Bob Marley will hold a concert promoting peace to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the musician's birth, a family spokesman said yesterday.The Feb. 10 concert, called "Smile Jamaica," will be held in the reggae superstar's birthplace of Nine Miles, in St. Ann parish, spokesman Jerome Hamilton said.The concert shares ...
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Director of the reggae classic 'The Harder They Come' moves on to new adventures
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Perry HenzellDirector of the reggae classic 'The Harder They Come', Jamaica's first home-grown feature film... Perry Henzell, film director and writer: born Port Maria, Jamaica 7 March 1936; married 1965 Sally Densham (one son, two daughters); died Treasure Beach, Jamaica 30 November 2006.The Harder They Come (1972) is a rough-hewn classic, the first and still the best home-grown Jamaican featu...
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Prince Charles, Government of Jamaica to Fund Trench Town Housing
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published: Daily Gleaner - Monday | October 2, 2006 The Prince of Wales, in partnership with the Government of Jamaica, is set to unveil a massive housing development plan for Trench Town, a British newspaper reported yesterday. According to the Sunday Times, Prince Charles through his architectural charity, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, has drawn up plans to redevelop the ...
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Made in Jamaica, A Powerful Portrait of the Reggae Music Movement
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Toronto International Film Festival presents the worldwide premiere of Made in Jamaica, a powerful portrait of the reggae music movement TORONTO – August 28, 2006 The Toronto International Film Festival features the worldwide premiere of Made in Jamaica, a feature length documentary telling how a small island nation of only three million people has made music that resonates around the world. T.
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Hill Penned Socially Conscious Lyrics
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BEFORE the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the reggae group Culture recorded an album called "World Peace." Lead singer and songwriter Joseph Hill penned lyrics that reflected the concerns of many people around the world as the threat of war loomed:We can’t take another war/ We want world peace/ Every day the children are crying/ Mamas and fathers are dying/ Nuff man gone to war and na re.
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Bank of Jamaica Issues Commemorative Bob Marley Coins in Gold and Silver
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Canadian PressPublished: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 * KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Bob Marley's records long ago went platinum. Now the Caribbean island nation's most famous son is being revived in gold and silver, as the Bank of Jamaica released a new round of commemorative coins bearing the late reggae superstar's dreadlocked likeness. The 1,000 gold and silver coins, which were produced by the B...
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Ziggy Marley brings message of peace to war-torn Israel
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By Jo-Ann MortSpecial to the TribunePublished July 31, 2006RA'ANNA, Israel -- Ziggy Marley's bus arrived at a Tel Aviv hotel, but few people recognized the Jamaican reggae star. Scores of people milled around the lobby in the hotel, where practically every guest is an Israeli fleeing the country's north.Entire families are crammed in rooms for long stays.Shai and Orit Erera and their 8-month-ol...
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A Thoughtful Message On World Peace submitted to REGGAE.com
Only when an Israeli mother cries out in pain over the suffering and deaths of Arab children, and an Arab mother cries out in pain over the suffering and deaths of Israeli children, will there be true peace.Kabbalists are not pro-Israel, pro-Zionist, pro-Arab. Kabbalists are pro-humanity, pro-human soul, pro-God's children. This includes Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists an...
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"Miss Lou's" style and patois have influenced modern rappers and DJs around the world
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Louise Bennett-CoverleySeptember 7, 1919 - July 26, 2006Poet and broadcaster whose courageous use of patois inspired Jamaicans to take a pride in their language "Miss Lou's" style and patois have influenced modern rappers and DJs around the world (Esther Anderson/Corbis) KNOWN fondly on her Caribbean island and throughout the Jamaican diaspora as “Miss Lou”, Louise Bennett-Coverley was a
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'Mother' of Jamaican culture dead at 86
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TORONTO, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The Jamaican folklore expert who gave Harry Belefonte his hit song, "Day-O," Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, has died in Toronto at age 86. Bennett-Coverly, whose cultural efforts also inspired reggae icon Bob Marley, died last Wednesday at Toronto's Scarborough Hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported Wedesday. Born in Kingston in 1919, the woman known as Miss Lou fough...
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Bob Marley ‘Catches Fire’ Early in Life
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A new biography examines the inspirations of reggae legend Bob Marley in his youth. Read an excerpt below - also visit the REGGAE.com Feature Page at: http://www.reggae.com/artists/bob_marley/legend.htm Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. “Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley” brings you the private side of a man few people ever
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