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Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley is a Jamaican musician and the third-born son of Bob Marley. He is known for his own musical style, which fuses elements of music from genres such as reggae, rocksteady, ska, and soul. He has released eight solo studio albums on his own record company, Tuff Gong Worldwide.
 
Marley has also ventured into acting and has been featured in films such as Shark Tale (2004), Into the blues (2005), and 50 first dates (2004).
 
In addition to his musical career, Marley is also known for his efforts in environmentalism, entrepreneurship and philanthropy. In 2014, Ziggy took action on climate change and global poverty by offsetting his Fly Rasta tour’s CO2 emissions by partnering with COTAP!

Sean Paul

Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques, popularly known as Sean Paul, is a singer, songwriter, musician, actor and producer.

He has worked with some of the most popular artists like Beyonce, Rihanna, Shaggy, Jay Sean and Dua Lipa to name a few. He has a lot of famous songs under his belt: No lie, She doesn’t mind, temperature, hold my hand, get busy and give it up to me.

Morgan heritage

Morgan heritage comprises five children of reggae artist Denroy Morgan. The band member’s are: Peter Morgan, Una Morgan, Roy Morgan, Nakhamyah Morgan and Memmalatel Morgan.

The band has released 19 albums and have worked with well known djs and other artists in the reggae genre. Some of their best songs are: Down by the river, She’s still loving me, A man is still a man, tell me how come and Selah.

Anthony B

Keith Blair, is also known as Anthony B on stage. He was born on 31st March, 1976. He is a very popular Jamaican DJ and member of Rastafari Movement.

In his childhood days, he used to sing in various school choirs & churches.

While still in high school, her performed as a deejay for Shaggy Hi-Power, the local sound system at the time.

Some of his popular songs include “Fire Pon Rome”, “Raid Di Barn”, “Rumour”, and “Repentance Time”.

 

Bounty Killa

Rodney Basil Price is a famous Jamaican Reggae & Dancehall DJ, who was born on 12th June 1972.

His wonder is all over the stage, where he is mostly known as Bounty Killer or Bounty Killa.

He is known as one of the most aggressive dancehall stars of the 90s.

 

Jimmy Cliff

Jamie Chambers, popularly known as Jimmy Cliff, was born in Jamaica. He is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor.

He has been honored with the title, “order of merit”; he is the only living Reggae to be awarded this title by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and science.

Some of his famous songs truly loved by audiences are, “Many Rivers to Cross”, “You Can Get It If You Really Want”, “The Harder They Come”, “Reggae Night”.

 

Yellowman

Winston Foster, born 1956, better known by the stage name Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, also known as King Yellowman.

His first album release was in 1982 entitled Mister Yellowman followed by Zungguzungguguzungguzeng in 1983 earning instant success.

Some of his famous songs are Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, lost mi love, nobody move nobody get hurt, strong me strong, morning ride and many more. He has been named as one of the most influential dancehall artists of all time by many publications.

His popularity was at its peak during the 1980s and 1990s when he had several hits on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and in Europe.

 

Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh was a popular Jamaican singer-songwriter and a founding member of the Wailers, a popular reggae band of the 1960s and early 1970s.
His original name was Winston Hubert McIntosh, who was born on 19th Oct, 1944, at Grange Hill, Jamaica. 

Unfortunately we lost such an amazing talent at a very young age. Peter Tosh died on 11th Sept 1987 at Kingston.
Some of the great debut songs are, “Get up, Stand up” , “Stop That Train”.

Also Tosh was an aggressive defender of the principles of Rastafari.

 

Beenie Man

Anthony Moses David was born on 22nd August 1973. Known on stage by Beenie Man mostly.
He is a Jamaican Reggae Dancehall DJ.

His debut singles like “Too Fancy”, “Over The Sea” and so on were very popular in the 90s, and are evergreen till now. He won the Tastee Talent contest in 1981.

 

Agent Sasco

Jeffrey Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 22nd December 1982.He is popularly known to you as Agent Sasco or Assassin.The agent is a prolific Reggae DJ artist, who is a true lyrical genius, a producer & a songwriter.His classmates lovingly use to call him Assassin because of his quick-witted lyrics and sharpshooting delivery.