Rastafari is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with the Bill Smith ensemble, released in 1983 on the Canadian Sackville label...
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Mansions of Rastafari is an umbrella term for the various groups of the Rastafari movement. Such groups include the Bobo Ashanti, the Niyabinghi, the...
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Calling Rastafari is a studio album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear. It was released on August 24, 1999 through Heartbeat Records. Recording sessions...
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Steel Pulse (redirect from Rastafari Centennial - Live in Paris (Elysee Montmartre))
Award was given for their 1986 album Babylon the Bandit. Steel Pulse has received nominations for Victims (1991), Rastafari Centennial (1992), Rage and Fury...
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reverse of the imperial standard of Rastafari icon Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, though the direct model for the album art is a British recruitment poster...
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Ras Sam Brown (16 December 1925 – August 1998) was a Jamaican Rastafari elder. He was well known in Kingston for his politics after he participated in...
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Burning Spear (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
Majesty (1997) and the Grammy award winning Calling Rastafari (1999) which was the last completed album to be solely pressed by an outside label.[citation...
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Natty Dread (category Album articles lacking alt text for covers)
title track of the album takes its title from an idealised personification of the Rastafari movement, Natty Dread. Although the album's liner notes list...
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Rastafari Teach I Everything is Jamaican reggae artist Sizzla's 12th studio album, released on Greensleeves on September 4, 2001. "Rastafari Teach I Everything"...
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Peter Tosh (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion. Tosh was born Winston...
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Capleton (redirect from One Mission (Capleton album))
His record label is called David House Productions. He is known for his Rastafari views expressed in his songs. Bailey was born in Islington in St. Mary...
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Babylon (disambiguation) (redirect from Babylon (album))
used in the Rastafari movement and the Rainbow Family for any politically or economically oppressive society; see Vocabulary of the Rastafari movement Brian...
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Bob Marley (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
conversion to Rastafari. Around this time, Marley relocated to London, and the group embodied their musical shift with the release of the album The Best of...
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Dreadlocks (section Rastafari)
apparently coined it in 1959 as a reference to their "dread", or fear, of God. Rastafari developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, decades before the Mau Mau rebellion...
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Sister Nancy (section Albums)
Christensen, Jeanne (2014). Rastafari reasoning and the RastaWoman : gender constructions in the shaping of Rastafari livity. Lexington Books. p. 147...
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recorded 25 albums, fusing reggae with Mbaqanga. The Marcus Garvey Rasta camp in Phillipi is regarded by many to be the reggae and Rastafari center of Cape...
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a late medieval nobility institution Twelve Tribes of Israel (Rastafari), a Rastafari group formed in 1968 Twelve Tribes communities, a Christian movement...
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The Heptones (redirect from Party Time (The Heptones album))
audiences more used to more "militant" dreadlocked performers singing of Rastafari, and they began to be perceived as relics of an older era. Despite being...
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mid-1990s, Banton's music became more influenced by his Rastafari faith, as heard on the seminal albums 'Til Shiloh and Inna Heights. In 2009, he was arrested...
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Daphne (singer) (section Album)
single entitled Rastafari the following year but gained international recognition in 2017 with her track Calée. She released an album entitled Here to...
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Alpha Blondy (redirect from Jah Glory! (Alpha Blondy album))
Program, pursuing a career in teaching. In New York, he was introduced to Rastafari and attended concerts by Jamaican artists including Burning Spear. Seydou...
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Anthony B (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
known by the stage name Anthony B, is a Jamaican DJ and member of the Rastafari movement. Blair grew up in rural Clark's Town in the northwestern parish...
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Alborosie (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
mean!" In 2006, Alborosie released his debut album, Soul Pirate, which included hit singles: "Rastafari Anthem", "Kingston Town", and "Call Up Jah" on...
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War (Bob Marley song) (category Rastafari)
full-length CD album entitled The War Album, including all versions, was issued in Europe on the Rastafari label in 2001. A vinyl album was released in...
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released an album of their music later that year as Nyahbinghi. The album didn't sell well, so Cowan produced a second album, Rastafari (1975), with...
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Rivers of Babylon (section Rastafari)
"Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The...
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Ijahman Levi (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
His first album, Haile I Hymn, was released on Island Records in 1978. He became Ijahman Levi after a religious conversion to Rastafari when he was...
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An expression in Rastafari vocabulary "I and I" (song), a song by Bob Dylan from Infidels "I and I", a song by Bayside from the album The Walking Wounded...
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Burning Up is the debut roots-style reggae album by Sizzla. It was released on September 5, 1995, on the Jamaican label RAS. All songs were written by...
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Reincarnated (film) (category Rastafari)
documentary film about the musician Snoop Dogg's explorations of reggae and Rastafari culture, and his transformation into Snoop Lion. It premiered at the Toronto...
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