“One love, one heart…let’s get together and feel all right.” These ten immortal words from the legendary Robert Nesta Marley have reached the four corners of the globe and then some. From the well-known bass riffs from the four-two-four beat pulsating throughout hits from Peter Tosh, the Marley clan and Jimmy Cliff to the considerably faster, heavier, louder bass lines of dancehall music from artistes like Elephant Man, Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killer, reggae music has made a marked impact on world music. American, British as well as Trinidian artistes of different genres have shown reggae’s impact on international music in their own productions.
Reggae has been described as a pervasive genre of music, as well as the only new form of music (except calypso/soca) to emerge in the last one hundred years. Artistes of different genre
Even Trinidadian artistes’ music have a distinct reggae flair to their pieces. During Carnival in Jamaica, visiting bands such as Square One and Chinese Laundry entertain the masses with lively calypso and soca music, cross-bred and heavily interlaced with reggae. Perhaps the best example of the calypso/soca/reggae hybrid can be found in pieces by none other than Jamaica College alumnus Byron Lee and his band, the Dragonaires.
In the United Kingdom, UB40 has been hailed as “Britain’s Premier Reggae Band”. The group has been entertaining millions of reggae fans worldwide with their own style of reggae for over twenty-one years. The group is best known for their Number One hit single “Red Red Wine” from the album “Labour of Love”. UB40, a group of eight members, first started out by practising music from well-known reg
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