Posted: under "Jazzy REGGAE ~ Irie Riddim", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know".
Tags: ambassador, artist, Caribbean, celebrity, designer, dreadlocks, earth, fashion, genius, Gregory Isaacs, icon, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, Kngston, Lady Saw, legend, life, link, love, lyrics, memory, Montego Bay, music, musician, northcoast, rastafarian, reggae, rhythm, singer, smiles, songwriter, soul, star, style, suit, sunsplash, tribute, universe, video, voice, world
Gregory Isaacs — one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-Seventies, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre’s landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse —
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Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse (Live at Reggae Sunsplash 1983)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyEP_st9csI
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Gregory Isaacs - My Number One
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pgZe3ZkvE
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GREGORY ISAACS : Tune in
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw1nAVTmKY
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Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down The Pace
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XmNm0inyM
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Gregory Isaacs - If I Don’t Have You
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Oct 26 2010
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", "Jazzy REGGAE ~ Irie Riddim".
Tags: Africa, African, American, artist, blacks, Britain, Canada, Canadian, cancer, Caribbean, celebrity, cemetery, community, companion, competition, couple, dance, designer, dreadlocks, earth, England, fashion, focus, force, genius, ghost, Gregory Isaacs, health, husband, icon, influence, inspiration, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, Kingston, legend, life, London, love, lyrics, man, money, music, musician, partner, pioneer, politics, rastafarian, reggae, respect, rhythm, romance, singer, songwriter, soul, spirit, spouse, star, style, success, suit, Toronto, tribute, universe, voice, wife, world
Tribute to the Reggae Legend
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Gregory dies at 59; Jamaican singer pioneered reggae style known as lovers rock
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One of the genre major stars in the 1970’s, the ‘Cool Ruler’ had a polished sound and lyrics that focused on tales of love. He was also known for his designer suits.
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Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican singer who pioneered the style of reggae music known as lovers rock and became one of the genre’s major stars in the 1970s, has died. He was 59.
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Isaacs died Monday at his home in London, according to his manager, Copeland Forbes. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer last year.
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Known as the “Cool Ruler,” as he styled himself in the title of a 1978 album, Isaacs cut a dapper figure in his designer suits and silk shirts — an image suited to a style of music that emphasized romantic yearning over reggae’s more traditional themes of spiritual and political transformation.
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“I’d say he’s one of the three geniuses I’ve known in the reggae music business, and I’ve known everyone,” said Gary Himelfarb, who recorded several Isaacs albums for his Washington, D.C.-based RAS Records label in the 1990s.
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“Gregory was the kind of person who could walk through a room of 20 people and come out the other side and tell you what everybody was wearing,” added Himelfarb, whose professional name is Doctor Dread. “He could sit at a piano and compose incredible tunes. He was really brilliant. He was on a whole other level than your typical Jamaican artist.”
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Isaacs was born in Kingston on July 15, 1951, and grew up in Denham Town. In school, he enjoyed reading, composition and painting, and at home he listened to American R&B on his family’s radio.
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Gregory Isaacs
July 15, 1951 - Oct 25, 2010
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Oct 25 2010
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", Jamaican Jokes.
Tags: age, attention, beaches, beauty, behavior, Big Boy, blacks, Caribbean, carnival, celebration, children, community, contest, cop, country, culture, custom, dancer, dialect, dreadlocks, elderly, example, fashion, festival, fun, funny, funtime, future, game, hairstyle, hilarious, history, humor, independence, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, jokes, journey, labrish, land, language, laughter, license, life, lifestyle, man, memories, morals, neighborhood, Ocho Rios, officer, patois, patrolman, police, pride, queen, rastafarian, rastaman, respect, road, role model, seniors, sheriff, smiles, sport, St Ann, style, television, time, travel, treats, trip, trooper, value, values, vehicle, vernacular, waterfalls, woman, words, youth
“SWEET, SWEET JAMAICA”
Waterfall at “The Ruins” in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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I GUESS I may be getting just a teeny-weeny bit old, because I can remember when it was considered
rude to whistle in front of adults, the biggest bad words pickney used to cuss were ‘blouse and skirt’,'rahtid’ and ‘blow-wow’; and slackness was talking big bwoy stories.
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I am probably not so young anymore, I guess, because I can remember when people used to charter JOS bus to go to outing at Gunboat beach. And the beach dem was clean! And bad boys were the ones riding skate, and playing marbles and racing board horse in the gutter water after rain... I remember when children were afraid of Johnkunnu - now even police fraid a pickney, ’cause pickney a shotta!
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Call me archaic, but I remember when school children never had such a wide range of colourfully creative
chemical concoctions and toxic adventures to choose from such as sweets and snacks. For example, I saw one
recently marked cheese tricks and when you read the fine print carefully, you realized that the ingredients did not include any cheese - so-so tricks!
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But I suppose it must be old age, because I also remember that children used to eat jackfruit, juneplum, naseberry, guinep, hogplum and tinkin toe; we used to relish treats like bustamante-backbone, drops, gizzada, toto, cut-cake and grater-cake. MEN USED TO DANCE WITH WOMEN after asking if they could have this dance!!
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I must be clearly approaching dinosaur status, because I can vividly recall a period when independence time meant street dance on every corner, and we never had to import carnival to have revelling in the streets, and float parades were magnificent. I must have come from them dark ages, but I remember when man used to go party to dance with woman, not to “par wid man”, and women never had to walk naked to get attention.
“Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2008″
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But I am not quite ready for the rocking chair and adult diapers just yet. No papa! Still, I remember when Rasta was a lifestyle. Now dreadlocks is a hairstyle. I remember
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Apr 02 2010
Posted: under "Jazzy REGGAE ~ Irie Riddim", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
Tags: army, artist, Bob Marley, celebrity, culture, dreadlocks, education, genius, heritage, history, home, icon, inspiration, Jamaica, Jamaican, Kingston, legend, life, link, love, military, music, musician, pioneer, rastafarian, reggae, singer, soldier, songwriter, soul, star, training, Up Park Camp, video, world
This is about 15 minutes long, but it is totally worth watching…..
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BOB MARLEY
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(Robert Nesta Marley)
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1945 - 1981
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JAMAICAN LEGEND
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BOB MARLEY
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JULIAN MARLEY
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(son of Bob Marley)
Alpha Boys Home-Jamaica (As seen on PBS)
Mar 28 2009
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner".
Tags: celebration, community, concert, culture, Easter, family, festival, Jamaican, lifestyle, pageant, rastafarian, resort, skills
Published: Monday | February 2, 2009
WESTERN BUREAU:
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“After a one-year hiatus, the Trelawny Yam Festival is back with a bang and for good,” Hugh Dixon, executive director of the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency, has announced.
The festival, slated for Saturday, April 11 and Monday, April 13, will be held under the theme ‘One Parish, One Family, One Festival’.
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Feb 12 2009
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: dread, dreadlocks, funny, government, humor, laughter, life, link, photos, politics, rasta, rastafari, rastafarian, rastaman, smiles, video
Rasta MP in New Zealand
Click below….
Dec 18 2008
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