Archive for February, 2008
Marley Family to Rock Miami
The music legend received the Reggae Icon Award posthumously Sunday during the 2008 Reggae Academy Awards. His widow, Rita Marley, accepted the award, held at Jamaica’s National Indoor Sport Centre in Kingston, from Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
The first-time event coincided with what Golding dubbed National Reggae Month in Jamaica. Another blowout event, the Smile Jamaica […]
2008 Reggae Academy Award winners
Best Reggae Song - She’s Royal Omar ‘Tarrus’ Riley
(Songwriter’s Award)
Best Solo Male Vocal Performance - She’s Royal, Tarrus Riley
Best Solo Female Reggae Vocal Performance - Roots, Etana
Best Reggae Album -
Mind Control, Stephen Marley
Best Instrumental Recording/Album - Making Notes, Robbie Lyn
Best Solo Male Dancehall Vocal Performance - Nah Go A Jail, Busy Signal
Best Female Dancehall Vocal […]
Global Reggae Conference 2008
When Erna Brodber discusses ‘Reggae as Black Space’, the distinctive burru drumming and voices of the University Singers fill the Assembly Hall, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, tomorrow evening, it will mark the beginning of an extensive blend of artistic endeavour and academia.
The opening ceremony of the ‘Global Reggae Conference 2008′, which […]
Read More..>>Marley’s Mind Control Wins 2008 Reggae Grammy
Stephen Marley, the second son of Bob Marley, yesterday laid claim to the Reggae Grammy for his album Mind Control.
Nominations in the category Best Reggae Album included The Burning Spear Experience - Burning Spear; Mind Control - Stephen Marley; The End Of An American Dream - Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry; Anniversary - Sly & Robbie And […]
The University of the West Indies to host annual Bob Marley lecture
The Reggae Studies Unit of the University of the West Indies, Mona will host the Annual Bob Marley Lecture on Tuesday, February 5, at the Undercroft of the Senate Building. The lecture, The Full Has Never Been Told: Exploring Dancehall’s Moral Conscience, will be delivered by Dr Donna Hope. Vivien Goldmans The Book of Exodus: […]
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