Released because of the silky-voiced Dobby Dobson in 1967, this story of ghetto passion from the ghetto has been a reggae common ever since, with Gregory Isaacs fitting it to his romantic outsider persona in 1973, I Roy adapting it that same year, Augustus Pablo delivering an instrumental cut, Ruddy Thomas crooning it in 1978, Freddie McGregor in 1
Cliff’s meteoric rise to stardom began with “Hurricane Hattie,” a song he recorded in the young age of fourteen. But it had been his timeless classic, “Many Rivers to Cross” that cemented his status being a reggae icon and set up him for a notable figure inside the global music scene.The drums were taken from traditional Jamaican drumming
Cliff’s meteoric rise to stardom started with “Hurricane Hattie,” a song he recorded with the young age of 14. But it was his timeless classic, “Many Rivers to Cross” that cemented his position being a reggae icon and founded him as being a notable figure in the global music scene.singing of great difficulties in a way that lifted the spi
Released with the silky-voiced Dobby Dobson in 1967, this story of ghetto passion in the ghetto has been a reggae normal ever since, with Gregory Isaacs fitting it to his romantic outsider persona in 1973, I Roy adapting it that same year, Augustus Pablo delivering an instrumental Reduce, Ruddy Thomas crooning it in 1978, Freddie McGregor in 1991
The original incarnation of 2Tone founders The Specials signed off with this dark and brooding tune from 1981, when the UK was going through a deep economic slump.Any list of reggae singers would not be total without the iconic Bob Marley. Born Robert Nesta Marley in 1945 to some white father and also a Jamaican mother, Bob Marley went on to become