• Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of Africans and those in the African Diaspora, including the spiritual...
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    successfully pitching his Reggae Reggae Sauce product. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Roots is worth an estimated £30M. Roots was born in Clarendon...
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  • Reggae Reggae Sauce is a barbecue sauce that incorporates Jamaican jerk spice, popularised by creator Levi Roots' appearance on BBC Two's Dragons' Den...
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    documented the Jamaican music scene in Roots Rock Reggae, capturing the heyday of Roots reggae. While the quality of Reggae records produced in Jamaica took...
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  • There are several subgenres of reggae music including various predecessors to the form. Reggae grew out of earlier musical styles such as mento, ska and...
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  • This is a list of notable roots reggae musicians, singers and producers. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Greene...
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    Misty in Roots are a British roots reggae band formed in Southall, London, in the mid 1970s. Their first album was 1979's Live at the Counter Eurovision...
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    Burning Spear (category Jamaican reggae singers)
    Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists...
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    The Roots Radics Band is a Jamaican reggae group, formed in 1978 by bass player Errol "Flabba" Holt, guitarist Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont and drummer Lincoln...
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    Lucky Dube (category Roots Reggae Library)
    global reggae community. Through taking Jamaican music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps...
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    Bunny Wailer (category Roots Reggae Library)
    which he reinterpreted some of the Wailers material as a solo roots singer with roots reggae-based backing by Sly and Robbie. The album, produced by Bunny...
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  • are vocal or instrumental reggae albums "containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded music", including roots reggae, dancehall and ska music...
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    Culture (band) (category Jamaican reggae musical groups)
    Culture are a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976. Originally they were known as the African Disciples. The one constant member until his death...
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  • Cry" and "Roots, Rock, Reggae" Tyrone Downie – keyboards with: I Threes – backing vocals Tommy McCook – saxophone on "Roots, Rock, Reggae" Donald Kinsey...
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    Bob Marley (redirect from King of Reggae)
    1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre, he fused elements of reggae, ska and rocksteady...
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  • formed in 1997 playing roots reggae. Through the years and several lineup changes, Ooklah became a strictly roots dub reggae band and reached its present...
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  • Dancehall (redirect from Dancehall reggae)
    the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s,...
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  • Steel Pulse (category Roots Reggae Library)
    Steel Pulse are a roots reggae band from the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, and were composed...
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    Wailing Wailers and the Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley)...
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  • Iya Terra (category American reggae musical groups)
    Iya Terra were an American roots reggae and dub band based in Los Angeles, California. Iya Terra first formed in 2013 when vocalist and lead guitarist...
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    Mighty Diamonds (category Jamaican reggae musical groups)
    The Mighty Diamonds were a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group was formed in 1969 and were best...
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    Israel Vibration (category Roots Reggae Library)
    Spence all contracted childhood polio, and went on to be a Jamaican roots reggae group in the 1970s. The trio initially met as children at a rehabilitation...
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  • roots music Roots reggae Roots revival, a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors Roots rock...
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    styles such as dancehall, while it is less common to find it in roots reggae. In the roots context, it is generally referred to as a "steppers" rhythm. Sgubhu...
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  • America Soundtrack (1996). "Roots Radicals" – 2:47 "I Wanna Riot" – 3:06 The song is a tribute to Roots reggae, a subgenre of reggae music known for political...
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    Jimmy Cliff (redirect from Roots Radical)
    Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Order...
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    Jah Shaka (category British reggae musicians)
    the Zulu Warrior, was a Jamaican reggae/dub sound system operator who operated a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the...
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  • Freddie McKay (category Jamaican reggae musicians)
    singer, whose career spanned the rocksteady and conscious spiritual roots reggae eras. McKay, born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, is regarded as...
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    Toots and the Maytals (category Jamaican reggae musical groups)
    "15 Roots Reggae Songs You Should Know". Vogue.com. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2022. "The Golden Age of Reggae: An Archival Romp With Roots Pioneer...
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    The Congos (category Roots Reggae Library)
    trio with the addition of Burnett, this line-up recording the classic roots reggae album Heart of the Congos in 1977 at Perry's Black Ark studio. The album...
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