Reggae. Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, African, and Latin American music, as well as other genres.
One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms; staccato chords played by a guitar or piano (or both) on the offbeats of the measure. The tempo of reggae is usually slower than ska and rocksteady.[1] The concept of "call and response" can be found throughout reggae music. Reggae has spread to many countries across the world, often incorporating local instruments and fusing with other genres. Etymology[edit] A History of Reggae Music. Jamaica: the mento TM, ®, Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
(See Background: The 20th Century) The first Jamaican recording studio opened in 1951 and recorded "mento" music, a fusion of European and African folk dance music. The island was awash in rhythm'n'blues records imported by the so called "sound systems", eccentric traveling dance-halls run by no less eccentric disc-jockeys such as Clement Dodd (the "Downbeat") and Duke Reid (the "Trojan"). The poor people of the Jamaican ghettos, who could not afford to hire a band for their parties, had to content themselves with these "sound systems". In 1954 Ken Khouri started Jamaica's first record label, "Federal Records". Soon the bass became the dominant instrument, and the sound evolved into the "ska". Ska TM, ®, Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved. (See The Age of Revivals) The Wailers, featuring the young Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston, slowed down the beat in Simmer Down (1963).
Reggae Dub. Sean Paul. Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques[1] (born January 9, 1973),[2][3] otherwise known as Sean Paul, is a Jamaican Grammy-winning dancehall and reggae artist.
Life and career[edit] 1973–1996: Early life[edit] Sean Paul was born in Kingston., Jamaica, to parents Garth and Frances, both of whom were talented athletes. His mother is a well-known painter.[4][5] His paternal grandfather was a Sephardi Jewish immigrant who had emigrated from Portugal, and his paternal grandmother was Afro-Caribbean; his mother is of English and Chinese Jamaican descent.[6][7] Sean Paul was raised as a Catholic, however he was aware that he came from an old respected Jamaican Jewish family.[8] Many members of his family are swimmers. His grandfather was on the first Jamaican men's national water polo team. 1998–2000: Stage One[edit] 2001–2004: Dutty Rock[edit] Sean Paul in 2005 2005–2008: The Trinity[edit] 2009–2010: Imperial Blaze[edit] "Imperial Blaze" was released on 18 August 2009. 2011–2012: Tomahawk Technique[edit] Music Biography, Credits and Discography. Three Little Birds. Information on Reggae.