There will always be rumours about successful people flying around! While being with Chris Blackwell, Bob Marley and the Wailers were able to spread the vibes of Jamaican music through worldwide tours, concerts and public appearances. Now more than a decade after Bob Marley's death, everyone is fighting over money they claimed is owing to them even signature forgeries stating that papers were singed by Bob Marley three years before his death. Rastaman don't sign papers nor make wills. One of the funniest thing is this: When the British public, especially, the older generation first heard the ska they turned up their noses and called the Ska jungle music and boom boom music. They immediately dismissed the ska by classing it as boom, boom jungle music." Now you will find some of the best collection of Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae residing in many British homes; they even passed on the boom boom music to their children. Yea! The boom, boom music had been passed to their children and grandchildren. But in spite of all that has happen, one should know that the great-great grandparent of Reggae is Mento music! Mento is a loose-sounding folk music, sometimes mistaken for calypso. In the early 1950s Jamaican youths were more interested in listening to American rhythm and Blues music. Now all you hear on the streets of England is the Jamaican boom boom music playing loud in the automobiles of British born natives! | | An American music genre could be heard on mobile sound systems all over the island of Jamaica. It is these same portable Sound Systems record playing dance machines and the proprietors competitiveness and insight that instigated in changing the face of Jamaican music! The Ska was revived again in 2002 through the UK release the "Rude Boy" Album. Yea to the Ska. It long way back to the 1960's when Prince Buster was in full swing with his ska music. Soon after his initial success as producer, Buster was drawing international attention to his brand of ska music rhythms. |
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