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I Grade Records
I Grade Records is a premier conscious music label from the US Virgin Islands. The label's mission is to produce the highest quality roots reggae music emanating from St. Croix and the US Virgin Islands. History The label was founded in 2001 by Laurent "Tippy" Alfred. Since 2001 the label has a rapidly expanding catalogue of nineteen releases. I Grade Records is an active part of the growing roots reggae movement in the Virgin Islands. Over the past years, the world has begun to take notice of the high quality reggae music emanating from the VI, notably St. Croix. The Virgin Islands has a large number of talented artists and producers who are upholding the tradition of conscious, hard-core, heavy-weight reggae that harkens back to 70¹s era Jamaican roots, but with a modern feel and appeal. Led by the legendary roots band, Midnite, the artists from the VI are setting a new standard for conscious reggae music. I Grade Records is perhaps best known for its seven powerful collaborati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos, while also conducting talent scouting and development of new artists, and maintaining contracts with recording artists and their managers. The term "record label", derives from the circular label in the center of a vinyl record which prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other information. Within the mainstream music industry, recording artists have traditionally been reliant upon record labels to broaden their consumer base, market their albums, and promote their singles on streaming services, radio, and television. Record labels also provide publicists, who assist performers in gaining positive ... [...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] |
Laurent Alfred
Laurent Alfred, better known as Tippy, (born September 19, 1974) is a swimmer who represented the United States Virgin Islands. He competed in three events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is also a musician, record producer and the founder of the record label I Grade Records. Biography Alfred was born in Haiti in 1974, and grew up on Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. He graduated from Harvard University and from Yale Law School. As a musician, he played in New York City. He competed for the US Virgin Islands at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. The following year, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Alfred competed in three freestyle events. He finished in 48th place in the men's 50 metre freestyle, 60th place in the men's 100 metre freestyle, and in 51st place in the men's 200 metre freestyle. In the United States Virgin Islands, Alfred founded I Grade Records in 2003, focusing on roots reggae music, with the label releasing more tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnite (band)
Midnite was a roots reggae band from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, which started playing in 1989. The band's music follows in tradition with the roots reggae bands of 1970s Jamaica. The lyrical portions of Midnite's compositions are characterized as the "chant and call" style which gives their music a spiritually intense and an overtly Rastafari movement feel. The lyrics are centrally focused on the plights of the oppressed, the inherent faults of the current political, economic and social settings on a global scale, and the redemption available to mankind through a life dedicated to Jah. In 2015, the band reformed around co-founder Vaughn Benjamin as Akae Beka without bassist Ron Benjamin. Ras Elyments took Ron Benjamin's position on Bass. Suren Felton replaced Ras L on keys. The reasons for the reformation have been stated as due to ''"''life changes, convictions and revelations". Stated on the band website was "due to a medical emergency the tour is postponed". Members o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezarie
Dezarie is a female roots reggae singer born in St. Croix Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincor ..., U.S. Virgin Islands. She received Atlanta's "Best New Female Reggae Artist" award in 2001 before returning to St. Croix. She works closely with Midnite. She currently has five albums available. They are entitled ''Fya'' ( I Grade Records), ''Gracious Mama Africa'', ''Eaze The Pain'', ''The Fourth Book'' and her most recent is entitled "Love in Your Meditation". In 2002 she collaborated with Bambu Station on Talking Roots volume 1 album on song ''Woe''. Discography Fya (2001) * 01. Zion * 02. Omega * 03. Don't Cry * 04. Most High * 05. Love Yourself * 06. Flesh and Bone * 07. Fya * 08. All Ova * 09. Walk Wid Me * 10. Rebel * 11. Jah Throne * 12. Mind Yu Own * 13. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pressure (reggae Musician)
Delyno Brown (born August 5, 1981), better known as Pressure or Pressure Busspipe, is a reggae musician from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.Henry, Krista (2007)CARIBBEAN flavour: Pressure builds from Virgin Islands", ''Jamaica Gleaner'', 16 September 2007, retrieved 4 November 2012 He gained his early experience working on the Star Lion sound system in the late 1990s. His debut album, ''The Pressure Is On'', was produced by Dean Pond and released in 2005.Walsh, Austin (2009)Pressure and Perfect, ''Times-Standard'', 12 November 2009, retrieved 4 November 2012 He had a hit in Jamaica in 2007 with a remixed version of "Love and Affection", a song originally recorded for Pond but updated by producer Don Corleon.Campbell, Howard (2012)More Pressure, ''Jamaica Observer'', November 23, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2012 Corleon produced an album of the same name. His third album was called ''Coming Back For You'', again produced by Pond and released in 2009. Pressure is known for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Record Labels
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Labels Established In 2001
A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, record used to start an operating system ** Storage record, a basic input/output structure Documents * Record, a document ** Business record, of economic transactions ** Criminal record, a list of a person's criminal convictions ** Docket (court), the summary of proceedings in a court (US) ** Medical record, of a person's medical history and treatments ** Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting ** Public records, information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies ** Recording (real estate), the act of documenting real estate transactions ** Service record, usually associated with military service ** Transcript (law), a verbatim ''record'' of some proceedings, in particular a court transcript is a record of a law court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |