Winston Riley perfects musical ‘Techniques’
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- Winston Riley perfects musical ‘Techniques’
- Music’s healing touch
- Celebrates the contribution of the father of Jamaican music
Winston Riley perfects musical ‘Techniques’
Jamaica Gleaner – May 18, 2008
He later went on to record seminal singles and albums for the likes of General Echo Sister Nancy Frankie Paul Sanchez Buju Banton Courtney Melody Super Cat and Red Dragon. From veterans like Gregory Isaacs to Tiger and Pliers Riley worked with the best and made them shine even brighter. Sunday Gleaner: How did you get started in the business?Winston Riley: I started in west Kingston in a band at Chakka Molong which was a place that Mr Seaga founded. We started to sing there but we used to sing at school concerts as well. As a yute in the ghetto there wasn’t much for you to do than find something to do the easiest thing we had was singing. I sing at Kingston Senior School; when I was there I founded the group Techniques which consisted of Keith ‘Slim’ Smith Frederick Waite Frankyn White and myself Winston Riley.
Music’s healing touch
Hindu – May 18, 2008
The work of Afro Reggae in some Favelas in Rio had intrigued me since my first interaction with them in ctober 2007. Coordinated by the international human rights organisation Breakthrough they had come to conduct a 10-day training and workshop in Shillong and Delhi introducing youth from both these cities Kolkata and Lucknow to Afro Brazil music and rhythm. Five months later I was on my way to Brazil. ver the next couple of weeks I was going to visit some of the Favelas in Rio and see exactly how they had touched and changed the lives of so many… The work of Afro Reggae in some Favelas in Rio had intrigued me since my first interaction with them in ctober 2007. Coordinated by the international human rights organisation Breakthrough they had come to conduct a 10-day training and workshop in Shillong and Delhi introducing youth from both these cities Kolkata and Lucknow to Afro Brazil music and rhythm. Five months later I was on my way to Brazil. ver the next couple of weeks I was going to visit some of the Favelas in Rio and see exactly how they had touched and changed the lives of so many. The Afro Reggae is a grass roots level organisation founded by Jose Junior who himself grew up in a poor neighbourhood.
Celebrates the contribution of the father of Jamaican music
Jamaica bserver – May 18, 2008
Notwithstanding the controversies that dogged his stewardship (in terms of artistes getting their due) it was here that he made his undeniably monumental contribution to the local music industry. And the rest as they say is history. Studio ne became the cradle of Jamaican music the portal through which the who’s who in Jamaican music recording has passed from ska to reggae and beyond not to mention the numerous dancehall projects that sampled the rhythms originating out of Studio ne. It is for these reasons Clement Seymour ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd was accorded the rder of Distinction (D) and four days before his death on May 5 2004 the City of Kingston on the afternoon of Friday May 1 (2004) in a civic ceremony officially renamed Brentford Road as Studio ne Boulevard in his honour. As well respected musicologist Bunny Goodison reminded us at a commemorative function marking the year of the passing of Sir Coxsone when he said “Mr Dodd’s musical legacy is imperishable no one can contest that.
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