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Bob Marley
"Bob Marley gave me back my dignity" a black musician told us in an interview one day. This is possibly the key to the work of Robert Nesta Marley, the Jamaican musician born in St Ann on 6 February 1945. For many he is one of the Rasta movement's spearheads, sometimes even called a prophet. But his role is both more obvious and greater than that : from a small third world island, Bob Marley became a planetary reference. From the farthest corners of Africa to Europe, America, Asia and Oceania, there is not a single place in the world whose music was not radically changed by Marley. For the past 35 years, his songs with their simple lyrics and melodies have been played over the air around the globe.
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Compilation Jamaica 1968, Year of Reggae
It was not only in France that 1968 was a year unlike any other. Alongside social and political uprisings just as violent as in France if not more so, in Jamaica the word “reggae” was invented that year. Hence the natural choice of “Do the Reggay”, the hit by Toots and the Maytals and the first appearance of the word, as the kick off to this compilation album. Following their boxed set dedicated to record label Treasure Isle, the magnificent Queens of Jamaica and Lee Perry’s Collectorama, Jahslams commemorates this 40th anniversary with a hefty 20-track selection. All released in 1968, these tracks contributed to the success of already well known artists or stars-to-be such as Slim Smith, the Ethiopians, the Paragons (the hit “On The Beach”), Alton Ellis (the amazing “La La Means I Love You”), Desmond Dekker (the highly charged "Intensified", winner in 1968 of the 3rd Jamaican Festival Contest) and of course the young Bob Marley, just 23 years of age, who presented along with his Wailers a brilliant ‘Hypocrites". An all-round winner selection of early reggae.
Translated by Marushka Vidovic
 Artist website
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Life and Debt
Le Chant du Monde Harmonia Mundi
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Uprising
Island Universal
1980 |
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Survival
Island Universal
1979 |
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Kaya
Island Universal
1978 |
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Babylon by Bus
Island Universal
1978 |
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Exodus
Island Universal
1977 |
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Rastaman Vibrations
Island Universal
1976 |
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Live ! (at the Lyceum)"
Island Universal
1975 |
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Natty Dread
Island Universal
1974 |
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Catch a Fire
Island Universal
1973 |
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Burning
Island Universal
1973 |
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