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The song was a commercial success, reaching the top 20 on the majority of the charts it entered, and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] On 12 March 2008, "Love Like This" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America .
Songs incorporating a mixture of love and romance, politics and reggae-inspired sounds have become an accepted trend in music. [8] Steve McQueen 's Lovers Rock film (with Dennis Bovell in a minor role), released in December 2020, chronicled a night at a 1980 blues party in West London in which lovers rock music played a central part in both the ...
Eddie Lovette (born Eddie Lovett, 1943 – April 29, 1998) was a Coconut Grove reggae musician. He recorded six albums, that all have a strong Caribbean influence. Lovette was born in the town of Cairo in the state of Georgia. He was the fourth of ten children. When he was nine years old, he joined the Cairo Echo Jr's gospel singing group.
Mike Love is an American reggae musician and singer from Hawai'i. His 2014 record, Jah Will Never Leave I Alone , reached #3 on Billboard ' s Reggae chart. [ 1 ] He self-describes his style as "revolutionary consciousness music".
The single "Want You Back" reached #1 on the Jamaica Star ' s reggae/dancehall chart, and the music video for the song reached the #2 position on the MTV2 playlist. The song also won "Song of the Year" at the 1999 Reggae/Soca Music Awards. Melody also won the "Best Male Vocalist International" award at the 12th annual Tamika Reggae Awards.
His 2000 album Simply Being Me reached number 14 on the US Billboard Top Reggae Albums chart, and 2002's Stays on My Mind hit number 9. [ 7 ] Primarily known for love songs and cover versions of pop and R&B songs, in the 1990s he mixed gospel themes with other topics on his albums, and released the totally gospel Who is This Man in 1999 and He ...
"You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" is a song by Jamaican recording artist Dawn Penn, released in February 1994 by Big Beat as the first single from her first studio album, No, No, No (1994). The song's lyrics are credited to Penn, Bo Diddley and Willie Cobbs, and production was handled by Steely & Clevie.
In 1977 McKay teamed up with Alvin Ranglin to produce the misleadingly titled The Best Of Freddie McKay (it was an album of new recordings), adapting to the prevailing roots reggae conscious Rockers style, also releasing a number of highly regarded Discomix vocal and dub showcase works, produced, engineered and mixed by Leonard Chin, Joe Gibbs ...