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    The Roots Reggae Library is a website that lists reviews of discographies of reggae artists. It contains detailed written descriptions of albums, songs...
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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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    Bunny Wailer (category Roots Reggae Library)
    Video Music, Inc. A Reggae Session (1988) Sony BMG, features "Roots, Radics, Rockers and Reggae" and "Rise and Shine" Roots Reggae Library Hendricks, Sharlene...
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    Lucky Dube (category Roots Reggae Library)
    music and honored the contributions he made to South Africa. The Roots Reggae Library has taken steps to store digital versions of the artist's mbaqanga...
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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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    Bob Marley (redirect from King of Reggae)
    songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, he fused elements of reggae, ska and rocksteady and was renowned for his distinctive...
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    Edson Gomes (category Roots Reggae Library)
    September 3, 1955), is a Brazilian reggae singer and songwriter. Gomes' musical style is heavily influenced by other Roots reggae artists, such as Bob Marley...
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    Alpha Blondy (category Roots Reggae Library)
    the song "Alpha Blondy Was King". Released in January 2015, the Roots Reggae Library featured an edition on Alpha Blondy with interpretations and translations...
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    Judy Mowatt (category Roots Reggae Library)
    (Girl Group Rocksteady, Reggae And Soul 1967-73) (2001), Westside (compilation) Rescue Me (1967-1973) (2016), Roots Reggae Library (compilation) "Judy Mowatt"...
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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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  • Twinkle Brothers (category Roots Reggae Library)
    The Twinkle Brothers are a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1962, and still active in the 21st century under Norman Grant's lead. The Twinkle Brothers were...
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    The Gladiators are a Jamaican roots reggae band, most popular during the 1970s. The core was Albert Griffiths (lead guitar and vocals; born 1945, died...
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  • The Tartans (category Roots Reggae Library)
    intends to produce an album with songs from The Tartans. On the Roots Reggae Library two albums with songs from the Tartans were composed. One derives...
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    Bob Marley and the Wailers discography (category Reggae discographies)
    did not begin to be collected until ten years after his death. The Roots Reggae Library has created an overview of the music released by the Wailers prior...
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    Ijahman Levi (category Roots Reggae Library)
    (born Trevor Sutherland: 21 June 1946) is a Jamaican-British conscious roots reggae chanter, artist and musician. In his early years, Levi was tutored by...
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    Wailers prior to their signing to Island Records was published by the Roots Reggae Library. "Simmer Down" A sample of the band's 1964 single "Simmer Down"....
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    The Abyssinians (category Roots Reggae Library)
    The Abyssinians are a Jamaican roots reggae group, famous for their close harmonies and promotion of the Rastafari movement in their lyrics. The vocal...
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    Peter Tosh (category Roots Reggae Library)
    11 September 1987), professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core...
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  • Lincoln Thompson (category Roots Reggae Library)
    London, England), was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement. He was noted...
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  • Black Slate (category Roots Reggae Library)
    reach #13 on the Single Tip chart List of reggae musicians List of Jamaican backing bands List of roots reggae artists Fabric Live 31 Greenberg, Adam. "Biography"...
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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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    Black Roots are a roots reggae band from the St. Paul's area of Bristol, England, formed in 1979. They toured extensively in the UK and Europe in the 1980s...
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  • Jamaican reggae deejays. Sound systems were the method in which Jamaican migrants were able to maintain their cultural connection with their roots. They...
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    Records. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-1-4402-2821-6. "Steel Pulse". Roots Reggae Library. 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2017. Gray, John Seaborn (August 30...
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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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  • to reggae, rocksteady was the dominant style of music in Jamaica for nearly two years, performed by many of the artists who helped establish reggae, including...
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    Cultural reggae Roots dancehall New roots reggae Revival reggae Revival dancehall Old school reggae Vintage reggae Vintage ska Classic ska Classic reggae Classic...
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  • Dub music (redirect from Dub reggae)
    musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae, though it has developed to extend...
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    dissertations, in the Library of Reggae, enabling a research, in addition to the museum cafe, Roots Café. The museum features relics of reggae, such as a guitar...
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    (/ˌmɑːtɪsˈjɑːhuː/; מתתיהו‎), is an American reggae singer, rapper, beatboxer, and musician. Known for blending spiritual themes with reggae, rock and hip hop beatboxing...
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