Jamaican Businesses
Below is a sampling of Jamaican-owned businesses in Los Angeles: New York Looks (Fox Hills Mall): Retail clothing store specializing in fashions from New York. Carry brand names like Guess, Vokal, Ecko, Enyce, Dada, etc. Platinum Salon (Inglewood): Barber shop/ hair salon. Air Jamaica: Offers non-stop flights to Jamaica from Los Angeles. This is just […]
Listen the History of Jamaican Music: Marcia Griffiths
Marcia Griffiths…Marcia Griffiths is, over the long haul, Jamaica’s # 1 female musical superstar. She began recording with Coxone Dodd back in the later 60s during the Rock Steady era…. and she’s still going strong. Also a member of Bob Marley’s backing trio – the I 3s, much of her earliest success came from her […]
Jamaican Organizations
Jamaican Consulate8703 Venice BoulevardLos Angeles, CAPhone: (310) 559-3822 Note: This is not a complete consulate and it has an “Honorary Consul” who is the appointed representative. This means that passport issues and other such business cannot be handled here and still requires visits or mailings to NY or DC. Jamaica Awareness Association of Californiawww.jamaicaawareness.org The […]
Listen the History of Jamaican Music: Rude Boy Music
Rude Boy Music …Rude Boy Music was a phenomenon that acted as a musical bridge in Jamaica in the mid 1960’s. As Ska was making its final impressions from its ‘hey-day’ and as Rock Steady was developing and emerging as the new musical style of choice, a significant number of artists took Ska and pumped […]
History of Reggae: Burning Spear
Burning SpearBurning Spear made his recording debut in 1969 on Coxone Dodd’s ‘Supreme’ label with the song ‘Door Peep’. His themes of choice, from the outset, were the oppression of the Black race, Marcus Garvey – who also hailed from the Spear’s home parish of St. Ann, and repatriation to Africa. Never a mainstream artist, […]
Media
Over the years, there have been more radio stations that play reggae music and with artists like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, even the Yankees request to hear them on the radio. RadioIf you twist that dial any day of the week (and weekends) you can find quite a few AM and FM stations that […]
History of Reggae: Christian Reggae
Christian Reggae Music … Gospel Reggae is the fastest growing segment of Reggae music today. It is really a homecoming of sorts because so much of the music that influenced Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae has its roots in Gospel. Songs like ‘Shadrach, Meshach, & Abendego’ by Justin Hinds & the Dominoes, ‘Oil in My […]
Events
Throughout the year there are numerous events (many in the summer) in Los Angeles. Ticket prices range from $10 – $40(US) and you’ll never be hungry; vendors are by the dozens, selling everything from beef patties to mannish water and there are also vendors selling various craft items & music as well. Annual Events: RaggaMuffins […]
Claim Reggae For Prosperity
The sea and sky were a brilliant blue in Belmont. As we made our regular stop for fish, we could hear the sounds of nature that its famous son Peter Tosh had captured in his haunting interpretation of the 27th Psalm: “Jah is my Keeper”. I struck up a conversation with the vendors, delighted to […]
Reggae Interview Series: Reggae Music In The Netherlands
ReggaePlus:Reggae has grown in popularity in your country. Who are some of the artists that have performed there? Mr. T:From the time reggae started to get international all the big names from Jamaica have come to the Netherlands to perform their music. Thus we have been treated to notable shows by the “King of Reggae” […]
