Reggae University

12/09/2024

Manifestation!!! “Play I On The RnB - Want All My People To See… Bubblin on the Top 100 Just Like A Mighty Dread”!!

Bob literally Sang this into existence!! “ROOTS ROCK REGGAE” Charted at #37 on the US RnB chart in 1976 and #51 on the us chart

Is manifestation real??

19/08/2024

18 Years You Flew Away💫✨!! The First Reggae show I ever attended was Culture.. Thank You For Your World Changing Music And Wisdom

16/06/2024

How Many Of These Legends Can You Name?

04/05/2024

Word Sound and Power

04/04/2024

An Iconic Duo In Music!! the greatest heights of musical innovation…. Haile under recognized for their contribution to the evolution of popular music today

12/03/2024

In no particular order… These are some key studio that shaped the sound of many unique production styles whats your favorite production house from Jamaica?

Thinking of writing a deep dive of the different studios and producers from the golden era of reggae music if you’d be interested drop a comment below “producer”👇

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11/03/2024

In no particular order… These are some key studio that shaped the sound of many unique production styles whats your favorite production house from Jamaica?

09/03/2024

09/03/2024

The I Threes

28/02/2024

Legends Live Forever!!! Iconic Drumming 🥁 Who Can Name The Drummer???

25/02/2024

Osbourne Ruddock better known as King Tubby 🎚️

Tubby’s studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be influential across many genres of popular music.

He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix that later became ubiquitous in dance and electronic music production. Singer Mikey Dread stated, “King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense. He knew how the circuits worked and what the electrons did. That’s why he could do what he did”.

King Tubby’s first interaction with the music industry came in the late 1950s with the rising popularity of Jamaican sound systems, which were to be found all over Kingston and which were developing into enterprising businesses. As a talented radio repairman, Tubby soon found himself in great demand by most of the major sound systems of Kingston, as the tropical weather of the Caribbean island (often combined with sabotage by rival sound system owners) led to malfunctions and equipment failure.

Tubby owned an electrical repair shop on Drumalie Avenue, Kingston, that fixed televisions and radios. It was here that he built large amplifiers for the local sound systems. In 1961–62, he built his own radio transmitter and briefly ran a pirate radio station playing ska and rhythm and blues which he soon shut down when he heard that the police were looking for the perpetrators.

Tubby eventually formed his own sound system, Tubby’s Hometown Hi-Fi, in 1958. It became a crowd favourite due to the high quality sound of his equipment, exclusive releases and Tubby’s own echo and reverb sound effects, at that point something of a novelty. The sound also launched the career of the Late Great U-Roy…

20/02/2024

Horsemouth 🥁

16/10/2023

Eternal Gratitude For The Life, Legacy And Music Of The Great Michael Ibo Cooper, Founding Member Of THIRD WORLD If You Haven't Seen The Prisoner In The Street Documentary Be Sure To Check It Out Below Or Save It For Later...

"Experience the Golden Era of Reggae with Third World's 1980 documentary "Prisoner in the Street". Follow the legendary band as they showcase their unique so...

26/01/2023

The Great 💨
Who knows why his Last Album that is mixed mastered and pressed onto disk, sitting in boxes has been kept from the world???

It should be a criminal offense to sabotage an artists final masterpiece…

Love this photo by of lickin the chalice next to and a young

17/01/2023

💫✨ERNEST RANGLIN ✨💫🎸

13/01/2023

Named after his father Kenneth Snr, Kenneth Byles Jr. was born at Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, and grew up in the city's Jonestown ghetto, where his father worked as a mechanic, and his mother as a schoolteacher.

His family were devoutly religious, and his early musical education came from singing in church.

He formed the vocal trio The Versatiles in 1967, along with Dudley Earl and Ben 'Louis' Davis, while also working as a firefighter.

Lee "Scratch" Perry, then working as chief engineer at Joe Gibbs' studio, was scouting for talent for Gibbs' new Amalgamated label, and spotted the group while they were auditioning for the 1967 Festival Song Contest with "The Time Has Come".

Perry signed the group to the label, but left Gibbs soon after. The Versatiles stayed with Gibbs for two years, before moving to work with Perry, and then to Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label, also recording for other producers such as Laurel Aitken.

The group split up in 1970, with Byles still working as a firefighter but continuing to record solo for Perry (sometimes with the other former-Versatiles providing harmonies).

When Perry's association with Bob Marley came to an end, he sought a singer-songwriter to work with who would fill the void, and Byles fit the bill.

With Perry, Byles had a minor hit with "What's The World Coming To", released under the name King Chubby, and over the next five years the partnership would result in some of Perry's most highly regarded work, with Byles' Rastafarian beliefs clearly evident, including "Beat Down Babylon", "King of Babylon", and the plea for repatriation, "Place Called Africa". "Rub Up Festival" was Byles' entry for the Festival Song Contest in 1971, but the song's suggestive lyric led to it being disqualified after reaching the final eight.

The following year's "Festival Da Da" fared better, finishing as second runner-up. Also in 1972, Byles began self-producing, and set up his Love Power label, releasing singles such as "Black Crisis" and "Our Mistakes".

- For Full Bio Check Wikipedia

11/01/2023

Greetings, We Have just compiled our first for everyone to enjoy Entitled Best Reggae Songs Ever - Volume 1

Link In bio Reggae University]

Within the genre there are so many styles, sounds topics and eras it’s endless

To honor the foundation we had to salute the great for the first reggae tune ever, however it didn’t make sense musically for this playlist to select the track… we will definitely create a foundation playlist soon but until then we still had to pay respect.

The playlist features songs from



And many more

33 Songs of pure musical Inspiration

Link is in our bio Reggae University]
Let us know what you think and comment with any requests for the next one

Bless Up!✨