The Reggae Pioneer Tells The Fader About New Music, Old Studios, and Negative Influence
You’ve had major influence in the world of reggae as one of the pioneers of the genre. How have you seen it change over the years?
Well, the whole thing about it… For me to say “reggae” me just say that to make the people who living off it live. Right? But the music itself is a spiritual organization that I put together. And because of the other people in Jamaica there wasn’t a name for it. It was like a weapon, a revolution weapon to correct or to make connection with the American funky. Like, to fight against the funky. So it did not have a name and they wanted to know what they should call it. So they want to say, “Let’s call it reggae.” But it name revolution music. Redemption music. Revolution music. But because of the people who are suffering like sufferers and they are rebels. “Streggae” the sufferer mean, so me join it as a fun.
(Via The Fader)
Photograph & videos shot by Mark James
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