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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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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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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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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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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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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Well now.......I have an old album with a clear white label with pen written titles. This one is called..."vs Lee Scratch Perry Dreamland (with B. W.)" I'm guessing the B. W. is Bunny Wailer.Thats all i know
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A chunk of 70's reggae music that had been locked up in the archives of the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corp. are gone. The sketchy act is a dis on the Jamaican government who people accuse of not properly maintaining the archives, according to the AP.The theft was noticed recently by workers for the new Public Broadcasting Corp. of Jamaica who went to the old JBC building looking for archived ...
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You come here to steal my face....But you can't get me out of the race
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you will be sorely missed my twin brutha of a different muthahttp://www.legacy.com/TimesDispatch/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=96300787
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On the deluxe edition of "Rastaman Vibration":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++2907&a_id=R+++616263&search=rastaman%20vibration&sec=album&prodid=ISL063446.2&si=rhino, the first disc contains all of the cuts issued in the spring of the US' bicentennial (1976) in the original configuration but there's more. This CD also holds the anthemic single "Jah Live" and previously unre...
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Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Demme has taken over from Martin Scorsese as director of an authorized documentary about Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley.The untitled film is set to be released on 6 February 2010 to mark the 65th anniversary of the musician's birth, reports the BBC.??Marley died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36.??Bob Marley's son Ziggy, who will act as executive producer, sa...
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...Vencent Ford wrote one of the Greates Songs Ever Written. I haven't checked but I'm sure this song has been posted more than once here on the MOG, I don't care. Mr Ford passed away Sunday & he deserves a little recognition.
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Rita Marley is notorious for her tight grip on the licensing and rights to Bob Marley's multimedia legacy. Every photo, every song, every document of the beloved singer published after his death has to be approved by his widow. And she usually says no. So when news broke that The Weinstein Company was making a movie adaptation of Rita's controversial book "No Woman, No Cry," I naturally assu...
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I had just finished parking my car in front of the house, I had been out doing some food shopping, when I looked to my left and saw three birds hopping around my neighbours lawn. Quickly all three popped up and flew across the road towards another lawn, just as they were about to make it to the other side the third bird in the back got clipped by a passing car. It happened so fast I didn't real...
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