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Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also refers to the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. The 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals titled "Do
Reggae artist Bob Marley in 1980
Jimmy Cliff
Peter Tosh with Robbie Shakespeare, 1978
Tanya Stephens in 2014 at a German Reggae festival
Bob Marley
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Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre, he was renowned for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley increa
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…there. European musicians have also drawn heavily on Jamaican and Caribbean traditions. In Africa, the genre's profile was boosted by the visit of Bob Marley to Zimbabwe in 1980. The 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as "a recently estab. sp. for rege", as in rege-rege, a word…
Marley in 1976
The residence where Marley was born, on a farm in Nine Mile, Jamaica, is a tourist attraction.
Marley's flat at 34 Ridgmount Gardens in London, where he lived in 1972
Marley performing in 1975