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This is a list of reggae music compilations. It includes LP and CD compilations featuring music from the various styles of reggae, including mento, ska, rocksteady, early/roots reggae, dub, and dancehall, etc.
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Mento, often considered Jamaica's first popular music genre, developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 2004, Shervington was awarded the "Living Legend" award at King's House, Jamaica, along with Mighty Sparrow, Ernie Smith, David Rudder, Ken Lazarus and others.The band Pluto & Company was twice the recipient of the Caribbean Music Festival award for Florida's best Caribbean dance band.
It debuted at #1 [6] on the Billboard Reggae Charts (114 [7] Top Billboard 200), as well as the iTunes and Amazon Top Reggae charts. Representing contains 12 original recordings featuring Don Carlos , Mykal Rose , Kyle McDonald of Slightly Stoopid , Vaughn Benjamin of Midnite , New Kingston , Maad T-Ray (Tribal Seeds' producer), and guitarist ...
Raggamuffin music (or simply ragga) is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music with heavy use of sampling . Wayne Smith 's " Under Mi Sleng Teng ", produced by King Jammy in 1985 on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer, is a seminal ragga song.
[13] [28] In 2014, following the growth of dance music in Jamaica, legendary reggae musician Richie Stephens sought to capitalize on this by launching a new riddim called 'Skatech' which was an amalgamation of Jamaican ska and electronic dance music. Stephens believed that due to ska not being at the forefront of Jamaican music for many years ...
The 1980s saw a rise in reggae music from outside of Jamaica. During this time, reggae particularly influenced African popular music, where Sonny Okusuns, John Chibadura, Lucky Dube and Alpha Blondy became stars. The 1980s saw the end of the dub era in Jamaica, although dub has remained a popular and influential style in the UK, and to a lesser ...
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