This year has already claimed two of Reggae’s most prolific pioneers, (Bunny Wailer, U-Roy) and the Jamaican authorities have amped up their efforts to pay tribute to the genre’s greats.
As 4/20 rolls around yet again, DancehallMag is rolling out a lit 20 track playlist for the occasion featuring some Dancehall and Reggae music.
Entertainment consultant and former manager of the late Reggae icon Bunny Wailer, Maxine Stowe, has clarified and contextualized claims recently made by Aston Barrett Jr., the son of well-known musician Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, that his father was a member of The Wailers.
Ten years after Rastafarian attorney-at-law Miguel Lorne outrightly blamed former Island Records’ boss, Chris Blackwell at a university symposium, for ‘mashing up’ The Wailers group by devaluing Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh’s equal role in ascension of the trio, the actions of the now 83 year old, is once again under the microscope.
Reggae legend Bunny Wailer is still recovering from a major stroke which he suffered last year.
American-based men’s streetwear brand NOAH has borrowed from the legacy of legendary Jamaican Reggae musician Peter Tosh for it’s latest T-Shirt design, which became available today.
Jawara McIntosh was only seven years old when his father, international Reggae Icon Peter Tosh, was murdered. Now 33 years later, Jawara, an advocate for the legalization of marijuana, is also dead, after he was brutally beaten while serving time in a US prison on ganja possession charges.