Irie Maffia is a

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band formed in 2005. Their

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is based on

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 ...

and

dancehall Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s.Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) "The Rou ...

, which they blend with hip hop,

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

and

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

. The band also has a sound system formation (Irie Maffia Soundsystem), where András Kéri (a.k.a. MC Columbo) sings

ragga Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music. Similar to hip hop, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music. Wayne Sm ...

lyrics on the reggae/dancehall

riddim Riddim is the Jamaican Patois pronunciation of the English word "rhythm". In the context of reggae and dancehall, it refers to the instrumental accompaniment to a song and is synonymous with the rhythm section. Jamaican music genres that use the ...

s played by band leader Márton Élő (a.k.a.

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) and Gáspár Horváth (a.k.a. Jumo Daddy) from vinyl records.

History and present

Their first recording in 2006 made use of a dancehall riddim, the Rodeo riddim (formerly made popular by the mighty Seeed), which was released by Germaica Records, Europe’s leading reggae/dancehall record company. The full house release party of the Mafia’s first LP, Fel a kezekkel! (Hands In The Air), took place on A38, a party boat in Budapest, in December, 2007. To make the most of the success, the Maffia went on tour to several European destinations, amongst which was the Italian Rototom Sunsplash in 2007, probably the greatest reggae competition of the continent. They came in second. Irie Maffia's first video clip, shot for their most popular song, "Hands In The Air", came out by the spring of 2008. In autumn 2008 the Irie Maffia is one of the 5 nominees for MTV European Music Awards Local Hero, the voting is now on. Until February 2013, the band's sound system formation held weekly club nights in Corvintető, offering reggae music to the Tuesday night audience of the venue. Having fulfilled the requirements of Dutch/foreign trustees, the Maffia took part in Amsterdam's My City Budapest Festival, an event featuring the most important Hungarian bands. They were also asked to participate in a festival in Rovereto, Italy, celebrating the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, to which each European country's national radio station contributed one band. In 2015, Vízibility, a one-day event organised by

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, was held to raise awareness to the water problems of the African continent. At the event, Sena Dagadu gave a concert.

Members

*Sena Dagadu -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

rap Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

*András Kéri a.k.a. ''MC Columbo'' - vocals, rap *Kemon W. Thomas a.k.a. ''MC Kemon'' - vocals, rap *István Busa a.k.a. ''Papa Diamont'' - rap *Ákos Baranyai a.k.a. ''DJ Future'' -

turntable A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...

*Tamás Dési a.k.a. ''Monsieur Büdoá'' -

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s *Ádám Meggyes a.k.a. ''Mézeságyas'' -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Márton Élő a.k.a. ''Dermot'' -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

*Gáspár Horváth a.k.a. ''Jumo Daddy'' -

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*Miklós Havas a.k.a. ''Doktor úr'' - bass *Ádám Szekér -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Antal Oláh a.k.a. ''Monsieur Zsömoá'' -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Discography

* ''Fel a Kezekkel! / Hands In The Air!'' - 2008 * ''What's my name?'' - 2009 * ''Nagyon jó lesz'' - 2013 * 10 - 2015

Videos

Hands In The Air
- 2008
Slow Down Chale
- 2009

Appearances

Rototom Sunsplash
(Udine, Italy) - 2007, 2008 * My City Budapest (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - 2008 Sziget Festival Budapes
Sentiero Di Pace
(Path Of Peace) Festival (Rovereto, Italy) - 2008
Red Bull Music Clash
Irie Maffia vs. Magna Cum Laude (Miskolc, Hungary) - 2008

References

External links

*
Hands In The Air video

Songs.hu: Fel a Kezekkel! / Hands In The Air!
- link album purchase
Rototom Sunsplash

Sentiero Di Pace

Red Bull Music Clash
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