On 26th June 1971, UK-based reggae group, Greyhound breached the British pop charts with an uplifting reggae version of ‘Black And White’, with the recording promptly climbing to number six on the listings.Further UK hits swiftly followed, with...
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...
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