Rebel reggae crooner, Cocoa Tea, added his support for presidential hopeful Barack Obama with a new tune called "Barack Obama". In the song, Cocoa Tea insists that his support is not about color or race (both Obama and Tea are African descent) and not about class or creed. Instead, "it's about the changes, what the Americans need" he sings. The Associated Press reported:"The young people who...
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Calvin "Cocoa Tea" Scott was born in 1959 (as was I) and made his first record as a teenager, with no success. After a number of years working as a jockey (horse not disc) he returned to recording in the 1980s, and cut some of the finest dancehall music of all, often utilising the Premier production skills of King Jammy, Bobby "Digital B" Dixon, and Philip "Fatis" Burrell. his high melodic teno...
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if this tune, produced by Philip "Fatis" Burrell for his Xterminator label and released in 1993, is anything to go by - the bassline here is not dissimilar to "The Lecture"
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here doing his own take on one of Bob Marley's most underrated songs
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This was recorded at Channel One, under the watchful eye of the late Henry "Junjo" Lawes, who was shot dead in London a few years ago. The rhythm here is one first cut by Lee Perry - Leo Graham or Max Romeo's "Three Blind Mice"
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Cocoa Tea looks like a proper rasta, but he really keeps it out of his music, he's all about affairs of the heart. (He obviously likes his hot drinks as well) . Cocoa's a rare specimen of some real sweet singing that is often missing from reggae (save some really cheesy stuff), and put together with the gruff of Buju, they recreate Cocoa's earlier hit 'Too Young'. Drawing on the original, which...
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