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A regular TV show like this
could be called "Reggae Week", but reggae not weak…
Reggae Strong is a Jamaican
magazine-format series, broadcasted with JumpTV which is
hosted by a different artist each week.
Reggae
Strong includes Reggae News & Reviews
with the Night Nurse and segments focusing on various aspects of
Caribbean life, including cooking, crafts and style.
To watch Lucky Dube, Pato Banton, Reggae's
Ambassadors and simply to enjoy reggae, just tune in to Reggae Strong
Online with JumpTV!
Enjoy
the best reggae hits in Reggae
Strong Live
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Hailing from St. Lucia and Columbus, Ohio, Identity
is a critically
acclaimed 8-piece reggae band whose short but
sweet career stands as a jewel in reggae's crown. Led by charismatic
singer/guitarist/steel drummer, Deighton Charlemagne, this program
features interview and concert footage shot in 1989 at Wetlands
Preserve, the premiere jam-band and activist venue in NYC.
Performance
clips: "Rude Boy", "Fele", "Friends". Video spotlight:
UB40: "The Way
You Do The Things You Do".
Night Nurse
reports the News and Reviews
from Step Lively's studio.
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Reggae music's commercial roots extend back
to the 1950's and 60's, by way of ska and rock-steady, earlier genres
of Jamaican music. In this program, Mutabaruka examines the origin of
the dancehall, Toots Hibbert, credited with "reggae's" creation,
discusses the origin of the word and Leroy Sibbles, Marcia Griffiths
and Jackie Mittoo reminisce about Studio One.
Music clips
include Pato
Banton, performing, "Roots Rock, Reggae", Toots' classic, "Reggae Got
Soul" and Jackie Mittoo demonstrating "Reggae Magic" and the evolution
of "Pass the Kutchie".
Video spotlight:
UB40: "Here I Am".
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One of reggae's most majestic performers, Alpha
Blondy and his 12-piece band, the Solar System perform
with a depth and
scale that let you know that Africa is in the house. A native of the
Ivory Coast, and one of the world's most popular reggae artists,
Blondy's music ranges from quietly spiritual to socially
outraged.
In
this 1988 program, the artist is interviewed following his historic
U.S. debut performance at The Ritz, NYC.
Video Clips include:
"Jerusalem", "Banana", and "I Love Paris" (from "Alpha Blondy: A
Prophet in the New World", courtesy African Family Films). Salif Keita,
from Mali, is in the video spotlight singing, "Suoreba".
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Singer Judy Mowatt's
career spans over 3 decades.
A gifted artist and formidable singer/songwriter, she was the first to
record at Bob Marley's Tuff Gong studio in the 70's, and that album,
"Black Woman", was also the first self-produced album by a female
artist in Jamaica. A core member of the I-Threes, Marley's trio of
harmony singers, Mowatt remains one of the cultural icons of reggae
royalty today.
In this program, videotaped at SOBs in 1987, Mowatt
performs "Hold Dem Jah" Sister's Chant", and "Come on and Rock Me",
backed by the A-Team band. The style segment demonstrates how
dreadlocks are wrapped.
Video spotlight:
"Amazulu", "Montego Bay".
The
best original reggae music in Reggae Strong online with JumpTV!
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LTD, the
artistic acronym for the dance
team, Love, Togetherness & Devotion, are two Jamaican dancers
who represent another dimension of reggae culture. Jamaican Festival
winners, George Howard and Erroll Waysome, are interviewed at Perry
Henzell's studio in Kingston in 1988, and demonstrate their craft in
two dance pieces set to reggae music.
This program, shot in Jamaica,
includes a visit with Jackie Cohen of Olabisi, the "little, meaningful
merchandise shop" in Kingston and more footage of the Nelson Mandela
Freedom Celebration in Kingston, in 1990.
Video spotlight:
Lucky Dube,
“Victims”.
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Dub poet Mutabaruka
is revisited in this
1990 follow-up program. Original concert footage of "Any Which Way
Freedom", "God is a Schizophrenic", and "Famine Injection", shot at
Kilimanjaro, New York's pioneering African venue, is featured along
with "Outcry" from his Lone Star Café performance in
1984.
Video spotlights:
Mutabaruka, "Dis Poem" and
Oku Onuora, "Dread Time".
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Bankie Banx,
Anguilla's native son, is a
unique singer/songwriter whose songs fuse folk, rock, reggae, jazz and
blues with a rich baritone and incisive lyrics. Creator of the annual
"Moonsplash" festival at his Dune Preserve in Anguilla, Banx is
interviewed in Central Park, NYC, 1989. Music videos shot in Anguilla
and New York include. “Down on the Corner”, "Prince
of Whales," "Screamin", and “Wasted Worry”.
The Night Nurse
reports News
and responds to a video request: "Outcry".
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