Jamaican Music

Title: Nena Fi Life
Location: Prince Hall
Description: Prince Hall 70 Pennsylvania Avenue Between Fulton & Atlantic Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $20.
Date: 2008-10-31

Founded in the early 1990s, T.O.K. are a dancehall group hailing from Kingston, Jamaica. The group comprises four members: Alistaire “Alex” McCalla, Roshaun “Bay C” Clarke, and Craig “Craigy T” Thompson, who were choir members at Kingston’s Campion College, and a younger friend, Xavier “Flexx” Davidson, who attended Calabar High School. Originally they were called Touch of Klass, but they have devised several backronyms, including Taking Over Kingston and Too Klaat.

Sean Kingston is a Jamaican singer and rapper we have featured before. I just wanted to post this video because it has a creative story line. Take You There,  is still played quite a bit on the radio and is always being remixed by popular DJs. You can read more about Sean Kingston in our earlier post. Enjoy!

Sly and Robbie are one of reggae’s most prolific and long lasting production teams. The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar (nicknamed Sly after Sly Stone, one of his favorite musicians) and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene. They are humorously also sometimes referred to as Sly Drumbar and Robbie Basspeare.

Brick and Lace are a Jamaican R&B musical duo consisting of Nyanda and Nailah Thorbourne, who are sisters. The duo has toured internationally, including Uganda and Tanzania. Their song Love Is Wicked was listed for 48 weeks in six different charts, including the Sweden Singles Top 60 and the France Singles Top 100. It reached number 6 on the Finland Singles Top 20 for a single week. Its highest entry was number 9 in the France Singles Top 100. Enjoy the video of the said song below.