Hasidic star Matisyahu saving reggae with new disc
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- Hasidic star Matisyahu saving reggae with new disc
- Reggae Singer With a Legacy a Following and a Mission
- Black Prophet the reggae prophet with a prophecy
- Raider of the lost Ark
Hasidic star Matisyahu saving reggae with new disc
Reuters
Apart from late reggae pioneer Bob Marley his various offspring and the British band UB40 reggae never gained much traction in the United States. And Hasidic Jews were not exactly noted practitioners. Matisyahu sees himself as a savior of the genre. “Reggae music in a lot of ways got really stagnant” he said. “You see a lot of the reggae bands play today and it’s the same horn patches on keyboards that they’ve been playing for 15 years and not in a retro-cool kind of way. It’s totally nauseating to me. “We’re taking elements of reggae music but totally crossing over into different genres and blending different things.
Reggae Singer With a Legacy a Following and a Mission
New York Times
Like those singers he possesses an expressive instantly recognizable voice as well as a knack for lyrics and melodies that capture the ups and downs of love and life — a new baby whose parents can’t sleep a husband whose wife’s kisses have gone cold — in a way that is both familiar to his island audience and accessible to the world. He’s also an irrepressibly cheerful personality constantly cracking jokes in patois though he could hardly take his work more seriously. His mission he said in a recent telephone interview from a tour stop in rlando Fla. is to “preserve our culture” by which he means reggae music and the attendant black-empowerment philosophies of Marcus Garvey. After a long season dominated by a musical war between Vybz Kartel and Mavado that has divided those artists’ young fans and a radio ban brought on by a slew of songs about daggering the latest dirty-dancing trend the dancehall sound that has dominated Jamaican music for the past two decades has become increasingly unintelligible to the rest of the world. Without bashing dancehall Mr. Riley is leading a resurgence of traditional roots reggae fortified by a rare blend of wisdom maturity and street cred.
Black Prophet the reggae prophet with a prophecy
Joy nline
They are believed to be people ordained by God to deliver special messages to their people. In the Ghanaian music arena there is one such prophet Black Prophet who delivers his message through reggae music. Ghana has seen a lot of reggae musicians who have raised the nation’s flag on international scene and notable among them are Rocky Dawuni Shasha Marley and Black Prophet. Black Prophet born Kenneth Wilberforce Zonto Bossman in 1977 in Accra has been in the reggae music industry for some years now. In an interview with Joy FM’s DJ Black on the pen House Party entertainment show on Saturday Black Prophet recalled a landmark achievement in his music career some years ago when the famous Shaba Ranks came to Ghana. He recounted a situation where he personally confronted the music star with one of his songs which impressed Shaba Ranks.
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Raider of the lost Ark
Boston Herald
Perry who performs tonight at Harper’s Ferry left Jamaica 22 years ago for Zurich Switzerland where he lives with his wife and two children. But the irascible Scratch is not done living up to his other nickname: the Upsetter. “There needs to be a change in reggae music” Perry said by phone from Zurich. “It’s gotten away from the spiritual side. People want to dance but they are losing touch with talking about God and the spiritual message that made the music.
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