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Green Valley (band)
Green Valley is a Spanish reggae-dancehall group formed by five musicians, native to Alava and Catalonia. Their songs address social injustice. History In 2001, Ander Valverde, founder of Green Valley, (whose surname translated in English gives name to the band), began performing in Sound System format in Vitoria. One Year later he recorded his first demo solo ''El sueño perdido'' and, soon after, in September 2004, the idea of forming a band emerged. Seeing it was accepted by the public they decided to move to Barcelona in 2006. In 2007, their second demo called ''Inmigrantes'' was recorded and they began playing concerts around Spain. In 2010, the band launched their first album “En tus manos”, an album full of reggae, roots and dancehall. The title refers to the call to transform the world in which we live through social awareness with witty lyrics, catchy phrases and an unmistakable voice. In 2012, they released their second album called ''La Voz del Pueblo'', an albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagata
Lagata is a municipality located in the Campo de Belchite comarca, province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the municipality has a population of 132 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Zaragoza {{Zaragoza-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roots Reggae
Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of Africans and those in the African Diaspora, including the spiritual side of Rastafari, black liberation, revolution and the honoring of God, called Jah by Rastafarians.Thompson, Dave (2002) ''Reggae & Caribbean Music'', Backbeat Books, , p. 251-3 It is identified with the life of the ghetto sufferer,Barrow, Steve and Dalton, Peter: "Reggae: The Rough Guide", Rough Guides, 1997 and the rural poor. Lyrical themes include spirituality and religion, struggles by artists, poverty, black pride, social issues, resistance to fascism, capitalism, corrupt government and racial oppression. A spiritual repatriation to Africa is a common theme in roots reggae. History The increasing influence of the Rastafari movement after the visit of Haile Selassie to Jamaica in 1966 played a major part in the development of roots reggae, with spiritual themes becoming more common in reggae lyrics in the late 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term ''reggae'' more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Reggae is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitoria-Gasteiz
es, vitoriano, vitoriana, , population_density_km2 = auto , blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s) , blank_info_sec1 = Spanish, Basque , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST = CEST , utc_offset_DST = +2 , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 01001–01015 , area_code_type = Dialing code , area_code = , leader_title = Alcalde , leader_name = Gorka Urtaran , leader_party = Basque Nationalist Party , website = , module = , footnotes = Click on the map for a fullscreen view Vitoria-Gasteiz (; ), also alternatively spelled as Vittoria in old English-language sources, is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound System (Jamaican)
In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system is an important part of Jamaican culture and history. History The sound system concept first became popular in the 1940s, in the parish of Kingston. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. Tom the Great Sebastian, founded by Chinese-Jamaican businessman Tom Wong, was the first commercially successful sound system and influenced many sound systems that came later. Gooden 2012 In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavour. The sound system remained successful when the conservative, BBC-modeled Jamaican establishment radio refused to play the people's music, while DJs could play whatever they wanted and favored local sounds such as reggae. The sound systems w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ander Larrea (musico)
The masculine name Ander is a variant of the Greek name " Andreas". Other variants of the Greek name " Andreas" are Andrés and Andrew, as well as Anders. The masculine name Ander is a variant Basque form of Andrew. Notable people with the name Ander include: Given name * Ander Crenshaw (born 1944), American banker, attorney and politician * Ander Monson, American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer * Ander Monro (born 1981), Canadian rugby player * Ander Herrera (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Lafuente Aguado (born 1983), Spanish footballer * Ander Elosegi (born 1987), Spanish slalom canoeist * Ander Gago (born 1984), Spanish footballer * Ander García, Spanish basketball player * Ander Garitano (born 1969), Spanish football player and coach * Ander Iturraspe (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Mirambell (born 1983), Spanish skeleton racer * Ander Murillo (born 1983), Spanish/Basque footballer * Ander Olaizola (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Vilar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ander Valverde
The masculine name Ander is a variant of the Greek name " Andreas". Other variants of the Greek name " Andreas" are Andrés and Andrew, as well as Anders. The masculine name Ander is a variant Basque form of Andrew. Notable people with the name Ander include: Given name * Ander Crenshaw (born 1944), American banker, attorney and politician * Ander Monson, American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer * Ander Monro (born 1981), Canadian rugby player * Ander Herrera (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Lafuente Aguado (born 1983), Spanish footballer * Ander Elosegi (born 1987), Spanish slalom canoeist * Ander Gago (born 1984), Spanish footballer * Ander García, Spanish basketball player * Ander Garitano (born 1969), Spanish football player and coach * Ander Iturraspe (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Mirambell (born 1983), Spanish skeleton racer * Ander Murillo (born 1983), Spanish/Basque footballer * Ander Olaizola (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Ander Vilar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
