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Mikey Spice
Michael Theophilus Johnson (born 21 July 1965), better known as Mikey Spice, is a Jamaican reggae singer. Biography Spice sang in his father's church from age seven and learned to play guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, piano, saxophone, flute, and harp as a youngster. Spice began a career as a reggae musician in 1985. One of his best-known singles was a cover of Barry White's "Practice What You Preach". Discography Singles & EPs * Tony Rebel / Mikey Spice - ''Who You Are'' / ''Acting Like Strangers'' ((12") Roof International, 1992) *Apache Scratchie / Mikey Spice - ''Me No Powder'' / ''You Caught Me'' ((12") Roof International, 1992 *''You Make Me'' ((12") Big Ship, 1993) *''I'll Be There'' ((12") Juggling Records, 1994 *Mikey Spice & Luciano - ''Let's Work It Out'' ((12") Big Ship, 1994) *''Cheat On Me'' ((7") Black Scorpio, 1994) *''Never Say Goodbye'' ((12") Big Ship,1994) *''Practice What You Preach'' (RAS Records, 1995) *''When Your Lonely'' (Digital-B, 1995) *Smokey Joe / ... [...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] |
Saxon Records
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Firehouse
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Jet Star Records
Jet Star (formally Jet Star Phonographics Ltd.) is a British record distribution company that grew out of Pama Records in 1978.Jet Star Company Info - Page 3 (archived) It was one of the largest distributors of reggae
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Charm Records
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VP Records
VP Records is an independent Caribbean-owned record label in Queens, New York. The label is known for releasing music by notable artists in reggae, dancehall and soca. VP Records has offices in New York City, Miami, London, Kingston, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, the label has established a presence in Toronto, Australia and New Zealand. History The VP Records label was founded in 1979 by the late Vincent "Randy" Chin and his wife Patricia Chin, who owned the Randy's Records store in Kingston, Jamaica (as seen in the 1978 film '' Rockers''), as well as the Studio 17 recording studios.Wartofsky, Alona (2004)At Radio City Music Hall, A Happy Reggae Birthday, ''The Washington Post'', May 10, 2004, retrieved 2011-04-30 In the mid-1970s, the Chins moved to New York City, setting up a record store in Brooklyn called ''VP Records'' in 1975, from which they sold and distributed records. In 1979, they relocated the store to Jamaica, Queens.Hartley, Darren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ras Records
RAS Records, also known as Real Authentic Sound, is a reggae record label. History RAS Records was founded in 1979 by Doctor Dread. In his travels to Jamaica he created a network within the reggae artist community there. By the early to mid-1980s, RAS had signed artists such as Black Uhuru, Inner Circle, Culture, Junior Reid, Yellowman, and Freddie McGregor. This allowed RAS to grow significantly throughout the world. To date, the label has also signed artists including Luciano, The Wailers Band, Sizzla and Tony Rebel. Awards Over the years, several RAS artists have been nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1996, Bunny Wailer received an award for his tribute album, ''Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary''. RAS artists * Luciano *The Wailers Band * Junior Reid *Culture * Black Uhuru * Inner Circle * Don Carlos *Yellowman *J.C. Lodge *Freddie McGregor * Sanchez * Israel Vibration *Steel Pulse *Mad Cobra *Mikey Spice *Tiger *Gregory Isaacs * Brigadier Jerry * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penthouse Records
Donovan Germain (born 7 March 1952 in Jamaica) is a reggae producer, one of the most successful of the digital era. Biography Germain's entry into the music industry was via his record shop in New York City in the 1970s.Larkin, Colin (1998) "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", Virgin Books, He began production in 1972, visiting Jamaica for recording sessions, working in both roots reggae and lovers rock. As a producer he had hits on the reggae charts with the likes of Cultural Roots' "Mr. Boss Man" in 1980, and broke through into the UK Singles Chart in the early and mid-1980s with Sugar Minott's "Good Thing Going" and Audrey Hall's "One Dance Won't Do".Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) "The Rough Guide to Reggae", Rough Guides, He ran the Revolutionary Sounds label which started in the early 1980s and ran from New York, and also ran the Rub-a-Dub, Reggae, and Germain labels.Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sly And Robbie
Sly and Robbie were a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres. Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians. Shakespeare died in December 2021 following kidney surgery. Career 1970s: Beginnings in reggae Sly Dunbar, then drumming for Skin Flesh and Bones, and Robbie Shakespeare, playing bass and guitar with the Aggrovators, discovered they had the same ideas about music in general (both are fans of Motown, Stax Records, the Philly Sound, and country music, in addition to Jamaican record labels Studio One and Treasure Isle), and reggae production in particular. Speaking on his influences, Sly explains “My mentor was the drummer for The Skatalites, Lloyd Knibb. And I used to listen a lot to the drummer for Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Al Jackson Jr., and a lot of Philadelphia. And there are other d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Eclipse
Digital Eclipse is an American video game developer based in Emeryville, California. Founded by Andrew Ayre in 1992, the company found success developing commercial emulations of arcade games for Game Boy Color. In 2003, the company merged with ImaginEngine and created Backbone Entertainment. A group of Digital Eclipse employees split off from Backbone to form Other Ocean Interactive, which, in 2015, bought and revived the Digital Eclipse brand. Among its staff is video game preservation specialist Frank Cifaldi. History Digital Eclipse was founded in 1992 by Andrew Ayre, Hans Kim, John Neil, and Howard Fukuda. The company's first offices were opened on a "nondescript, factory-filled" street in Emeryville, California, where Ayre (a native of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) had moved following his graduation from Harvard University to live with his girlfriend. Initially a technology startup company, Digital Eclipse soon found that their software would be useful in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Paul
Paul Blake (19 October 1965 – 18 May 2017), better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'. Biography Born in Jamaica in 1965, Blake was born blind but as a child had his sight partially restored by an operation on a hospital ship. He sang for, and impressed Stevie Wonder when Wonder visited the school that Blake attended, prompting him to pursue a singing career. Adopting the stage name Frankie Paul, he first found fame in the early 1980s, and he recorded prolifically throughout the decade. He recorded for virtually every producer/studio in Jamaica at some time, and was known to release several albums a year. Notable works of Frankie Paul include the popular "Sara" and "Worries in the Dance". Paul resided in The Gambia from 1994. In January 2016 he underwent surgery to amputate a foot and part of his leg. Frankie Paul died on 18 May 2017 from complications with his liver at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensleeves Records
Greensleeves Records & Publishing, shortened to ''Greensleeves Records'', is a record label specializing in dancehall and reggae music. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick. Based in Britain, Greensleeves Records started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975.Campbell, Howard (2012)Greensleeves Records paves way for dancehall, ''Jamaica Observer'', 4 July 2012, retrieved 2012-07-05Michael De Koningh, Marc Griffiths. ''Tighten Up!: The History of Reggae in the UK''. Sanctuary, 2003, pp. 217-218. The record label was founded in 1977, with early releases including albums by Augustus Pablo and Barrington Levy. They have released records by Red Rat, Anthony Johnson, Barrington Levy, Billy Boyo, Chezidek, Dennis Brown, Dr Alimantado, Eek-A-Mouse, Elephant Man, Freddie McGregor, Gregory Isaacs, Keith Hudson, Mad Cobra, Scientist, Shabba Ranks, Sizzla, Vybz Kartel and Yellowman, and have had crossover pop hits with Tipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
