The May Pen Cemetery in Kingston, The Wailers rehearsal ground where manager Joe Higgs ordered them to sing at night in order to conquer stage fright, will be featured in the upcoming Bob Marley: One Love biopic, according to executive producer Ziggy Marley.
Peter Tosh’s daughter Niambe, is in a celebratory mode following the announcement that the late Reggae icon is listed among the “eminent foreign nationals” who will be awarded the South African Government’s Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in Silver, at the 2023 National Order Awards on April 28.
Peter Tosh’s 1976 album Live and Dangerous will be released on vinyl for the first time, and will be available only at select indie retailers this Saturday, April 22, which is being observed as Record Store Day, in what has been described as “highly limited quantities.”
Catch a Fire, the album regarded as responsible for catapulting Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer to global stardom, has clawed its way back onto Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart 50 years after its release.
What’s the most streamed Jamaican song of all time? Take a guess. There are just too many fantastic hits to choose from, right?
When the winner for Best Reggae Album is announced at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards next Sunday, February 5, it will be a tossup between five stellar Jamaican albums, which have all had varying success on the commercial front.
October 19, 2022 will commemorate the celebrations of two important musical facts, the Birthday of the late great Peter Tosh and the 50th Anniversary of the Wailers Albums – Catch a Fire and Burnin.
MSNBC’s Ari Melber has described Reggae Legend Peter Tosh’s 1976 classic Legalize It, as “one of the most iconic statements about pot prohibition policies of all time.”
Drawing for Peter Tosh’s hit song Burial, from the Reggae icon’s 1976 album Legalize It, Bounty Killer insisted that he would not be intimidated by persons who are still berating him for not attending Merciless’ funeral and for the “drug addict” comments he made about the late deejay.
Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1973 hit Get Up, Stand Up was certified Silver in the United Kingdom (UK) on Friday, September 2.
Since 1964, Jamaicans have netted 134 entries on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Of these songs, 56 leaped into the Top 40, and 11 soared to No.
Zak Starkey’s move to Reggae isn’t exactly shocking, but it is interesting. The now 56-year-old English rock musician is the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and has served as the drummer in two legendary rock bands, The Who and Oasis.
Attorney-at-law Maxine Stowe has taken issue with some of the content from Chris Blackwell’s upcoming memoir, maintaining that what the Islands Records co-founder described as an ‘unfounded perception of favoritism towards Bob Marley’, was real, and was, according to her, “pre-meditated false marketing” aimed at ‘black erasure’ of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
Founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell has denied long-held assertions that he sidelined Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh in favor of Bob Marley because the Gong was half-white.
Iconic artiste manager Copeland Forbes, former manager of Peter Tosh, who in the past administered the musical affairs and tours of some of Reggae’s biggest icons, has announced that his long-awaited memoir titled Reggae My Life Is, will be released within a matter of weeks.
Regend legends Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff have re-entered the Billboard Reggae Albums chart for the first time in years, fuelled by vinyl reissues of their classic albums on Record Store Day (RSD).
The overwhelming number of young people who have affirmed that they have no knowledge of who Peter Tosh is, in the aftermath of a now-viral Schools Challenge Quiz match video clip, seems to have validated concerns raised last March by Reggae Studies Unit head, Dr.
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, who was closely associated with Reggae legend Peter Tosh, seems up to some musical works in Port Antonio, the cradle of Jamaica’s tourism and a stomping ground for music and Hollywood’s rich and famous.
Public Enemy’s co-founder and frontman Chuck D has listed Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1973 hit Get Up, Stand Up and Simmer Down, as among the songs by which he was influenced as a youngster.
In her address to the United Nations on Friday, the straight-shooting Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley drew for the lyrics of Get Up, Stand Up a song co-written by Reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, as she rebuked the 76-year-old organization for being in a constant state of inertia.