Reggae University

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!✨

11/01/2023

The Mighty Abyssinians…. Who is your Favourite vocal group??

The vocal trio was originally formed in 1968 by Bernard Collins and Donald Manning.

Their first song was "Satta Massagana", which was strongly influenced by Carlton Manning's "Happy Land". "Satta Massagana" is a Rastafarian hymn sung partly in the Ethiopian Amharic language.

They recruited a third vocalist, who was still at school and often unable to attend rehearsals; he was soon replaced by Donald's brother Lynford Manning, who like Donald had previously been a member of their brother Carlton Manning's group Carlton and The Shoes.

"Satta Massagana" was first recorded for producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd in March 1969, but he decided against releasing it, seeing no commercial potential for what he saw as a song constituting cultural subversion.

In 1971, the group purchased the master tapes from Dodd for £90 and released it on their own Clinch label, the single becoming a massive success, prompting Dodd to release his own instrumental and deejay versions.

The group released further takes on the song on Clinch by Tommy McCook, Big Youth, and Dillinger, as well as their own "Mabrak", featuring the group reciting passages from the Old Testament.
It has since been recorded by dozens of artists.

The group's second release, "Declaration of Rights", featured Leroy Sibbles on backing vocals, and like their first was a huge hit in Jamaica, (and subsequently in the international market) and has been covered several times since.

Their 1973 single "Y Mas Gan" was similar to "Satta" in its use of Amharic.
- Wikipedia

04/01/2023

One Foundation!!! Did you miss the message???

30/12/2022

Brother Your Right, Your Right, Your Right, Your Right Your…. So Right…

28/12/2022

Destruction Of The Flesh Is Not The Ending To Life 💫✨✨✨
Infinite blessings going out the the at this time….. Prayer 🙏

26/12/2022

Play I On The RnB Want All My People To See
Play I On The Top 100 Just Like A Mighty Dread!!

18/12/2022

Born in the Smith Village area of Kingston in 1935 and educated at the Alpha Boys School, he initially worked as a singer in a duo with his schoolfriend Arthur "Bunny" Robinson, known as Simms & Robinson and later Bunny & Scully.

The duo won the Vere Johns talent contest two years running and were the first Jamaican artists to make R&B records on the island, starting with acetates for sound system use in 1953 (previous Jamaican-made singles were calypso).

They went on to release singles in the early 1960s for producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, with Simms also recording solo sides for Prince Buster, and as part of another duo, Simms & Elmond.

He was one of the first Jamaican musicians to use Amharic phrases in songs after learning them from Rasta leader Mortimer Planno, with tracks such as "Golden Pen" and "Press Along" in the early 1960s.

As a percussionist, he has performed as a member of several bands, including the Aggrovators, the Upsetters, the Revolutionaries, and Roots Radics, and has recorded and performed with Big Youth, Peter Tosh (playing in the All-Star Band at the One Love Peace Concert), Dillinger and the Heptones, playing on more than 200 albums between 1971 and 1985.

He toured Europe with The Jamaica All Stars along with Justin Hinds, Johnny "Dizzy" Moore and Sparrow Martin.

He also played in a backing band for Jimmy Cliff. On recordings, he is credited under many different names, including: Noel "Scully" Simms, Noel "Skully" Simms, Scully, Scully Simms, Skullie, Skully, Skully Simms, Zoot "Scully" Simms, Mikey Spratt, Scollie, Zoot Sims, mr foundation and Skitter.

In 2004, along with his former singing partner Robinson, Simms received a Badge of Honour from the Jamaican government in recognition of their contribution to Jamaican music.

Simms lost his sight to glaucoma. Despite this, he kept on recording and writing songs, including "Africa for the Africans".

- Wikipedia