One of the world’s leading Jamaican music experts, Michael de Koningh developed a deep affinity for black music from an early age, with his passion for the sounds of Jamaica first demonstrated in the late 1980s with his regular contributions to Trojan’s popular...
August marked the relaunch of Trojan’s ‘classic album’ range, with the 3 essential collections issued on 19th August.Each vinyl album faithfully reproduces of the original issue from either the 1960s or 1970s, is mastered from the...
During her lifetime, Sonia Eloise Durrant aka Sonia Pottinger O.D. was instrumental in transforming the Jamaican music industry, successfully overcoming all obstacles to become one the greatest Jamaican record producers of all time.For almost two...
Best known outside Jamaican for his major mainstream hits, ‘Rain’ and ‘Mad About You’, Bruce Ruffin has been unfairly disregarded by many as simply a pop reggae artist.Yet during his long and illustrious career as a singer-songwriter, he penned...
When it returned to The Social on Saturday 13th August, TROJAN – Trojan Records’ official club night paid tribute to one of reggae music’s most influentail writers and curators, the late and greatly...
It will be something of a revelation to many to learn that one of the most commercially successful artists to record for Trojan was a white, ex-bouncer who hailed from the town of Sondland in Kent.After being employed by the company...
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