What are people who sing reggae called? The most famous Russian reggae artists

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reggae(English) reggae) - a musical direction that arose and formed in Jamaica in the late 60s of the twentieth century. This style of music has so merged with the rest of the culture of the island that it has become a real national treasure. Despite the fact that the roots of reggae are firmly intertwined with genres such as calypso (Eng. calypso), mento (English) mento), jazz jazz) and rhythm and blues (eng. rhythm'n'blues), the closest areas of music to it are still ska (eng. ska) and rocksteady (eng. rocksteady). Actually, reggae was born from their depths as a separate style of music. If rocksteady was closer in rhythm to rock and roll, i.e. rhythmic and danceable enough, then in the reggae that emerged from it, the performers began to use the average tempo of the compositions and, which became a special feature, accentuating the weak beat of the rhythm.

For the first time, the term "reggae" appeared in 1968 in the title of the song "Do the Reggae", belonging to one of the founders of this direction - the Maytals group. This simple song said that reggae is new dance who can move you, you can love with all your heart in it and you just have to dance. Later in other Maytals songs they talked about how reggae has a soul, reggae has a rhythm that puts your feet in the dance, reggae makes you feel good, grandparents can do reggae, reggae makes you do crazy things... But endowing this term With so many epithets and metaphors, the band's musicians never confessed to anyone where they got it from. Since then, various critics have not been able to reach a consensus regarding its etymology.

But having announced reggae to the world, Maytals did not become either its recognized ideologists or world-famous idols. This fate befell other performers. Bob Marley ( ), Peter Tosh ( Peter Tosh) and Bunny Wyler ( Bunny Wailer) have acquired the status of "three pillars" on which reggae rests, both as a musical direction and as an ideology. It was they who made reggae famous all over the world.

Particular attention should be paid to the texts of reggae songs, which turned from rather sentimental to sharply social by the end of the 60s. Reggae artists, inspired by the struggle of the black population for their rights, began to sing about the problems that they faced, first of all, in their native Jamaica. To all this, it is worth adding the theme of Rastafarianism - Jamaican religious movement, without which reggae is also impossible to imagine.

Already in the first half of the 70s, when reggae became a world heritage, the Rastafari religion was perceived as an integral part of the new Jamaican music. Almost without exception, reggae performers of this period were followers of Rastafarianism, actively smoking marijuana, singing about Jah, Haile Selassie, Babylon and the Exodus to Ethiopia.

Reggae won the hearts of listeners all over the world by the mid-70s. Bob Marley has become a "star" on a universal scale for admirers of the direction. This music went beyond native Jamaica and began to be performed in all countries and continents. However, young performers no longer cared about the religious component in the same way as the luminaries of style. As a result of this, the old, religious Rastas, who stood at the origins of the style, began to be referred to as "roots reggae".

Later, such a musical trend as dub was born from reggae. dub), and a little later, reggae influenced the emergence of hip-hop (eng. hip hop ), trip-hop (eng. trip hop) and drum and bass (eng. drum and bass). To date, reggae is still one of the most popular styles of music around the world.

Reggae. Below is a list of the best. This musical direction has taken root in our country. Behind long years continuous development, this style has changed, grown and supplemented. Given the specifics of this direction, numerous "garage groups" came out as Russian reggae performers in order to broadcast unusual musical masterpieces. Consider the most prominent representatives styles that lead creative activity in our country.

5nizza

For several years, Russian reggae artists have found fans, while some representatives even managed to reach the " big stage". Perhaps, greatest success this was achieved by the 5nizza project. The team, which united Sergey Babkin and Andrey Zaporozhets, was formed in 2000.

Participants are familiar with school years. However, they were fully united by love for this musical direction. The group took part in the Kazantip festival. There, Edik Shumeiko drew attention to the team - famous producer. As a result, the participants were invited to Moscow.

"Republic of Jah"

If you are interested in Russian reggae artists, you should also pay attention to this band. "Republic Jah" is a professional group playing in the style we are interested in. These musicians consider reggae not as one of the branches in their development, but are immersed in this phenomenon, defining it as a separate world with special rules.

On Russian territory this group can be considered unique in many ways. Most often, the style that these musicians have chosen for themselves is defined as “lyrical reggae”. This is very unusual music.

Other projects

Next, Russian reggae performers will be named, which we did not have time to talk about in detail above. It should be noted the project "Ja Division". It's about about the legendary reggae band, which was formed in the nineties in Moscow. The founder of the collective, Hertbert Morales, is the son of a Cuban revolutionary. The latter was a friend of Che Guevara. The team quickly achieved fame. For two years of existence, he managed to speak on the air of the central channel of Russia.

It is also worth mentioning the Reggistan group. This team is engaged in the performance of Russian reggae. Members future group met in 1990, within the walls of the Leningrad rock club. The musicians began their creative activity with the performance of covers famous performers including Steel Pals and Bob Marley.

Note that the following groups also belong to the direction of interest to us:

• "Akimama";
• "Dose of Joy";
• "Green Grey";
• "Chayf";
• "The ark".

What do you know about reggae music? What do these songs carry? How can I download them and can I listen to my favorite mp3 hits online? We are ready to answer all these questions right now. Jamaica is considered to be the birthplace of reggae. Despite the fact that the direction originated a long time ago, and its promotion to the masses was carried out completely different people(both simple and historical figures), most bright character, whose contribution to the development of reggae music is difficult to overestimate, is Bob Marley.

Development of the Reggae direction

Music, which today can be downloaded for free, finally formed as a separate direction by the end of the 60s of the last century. A huge contribution to its development was made by Rastafarianism. This is a religious and philosophical doctrine, the principles of which were guided by many Jamaicans and musicians, each of whom sought to bring his own "zest".

Reggae songs have characteristics, allowing to distinguish them from many other compositions available to our users without registration. First, it is a slow pace. Music creates a special atmosphere conducive to relaxation. Here the emphasis is on the weak beats, wind instruments, guitar chords. Reggae music necessarily carries positive "vibrations". Here one can clearly see the desire for harmony, the spirit of peace. main idea- the complete absence of negativity, the desire for reconciliation with oneself and others, complete relaxation and tranquility.

We invite you to listen to at least one free hit created in this musical style. It is likely that you will not stop there!

Currently, the word "reggae" means not only this original, interesting music but also a different outlook. The religion of reggae is Rastafarianism. According to the prediction, Ras Tafari Makkonen (the ruler of Ethiopia, according to whom new religion) was supposed to free all the suffering, save them from "Babylon" and return them to their homeland in Africa to their spiritual and ethnic roots.

In Rastafarianism, the ideal is universal brotherhood, which must be achieved in a spiritual, not revolutionary way. The herb of wisdom, better known as marijuana, has become a way of gaining spiritual enlightenment for most Rastas, it is believed that it first grew on the wisest of kings - Solomon.

Rastafarians can be easily identified by their preferred colors (a combination of yellow, green and red) and dreadlocks, which serve as antennas in spiritual world, the way with their .

predecessor musical style reggae is ska, a new direction borrowed a characteristic rhythm and a set of instruments from it. However, the ska turned out to be too fast for the relaxed Rastafarians, so they significantly slowed down the pace, made the rhythm more whimsical and inconsistent. The right rhythm is reggae music, because it is he who should broadcast a positive vibration to the world.

Fundamentals of musical style

Reggae is very versatile. Within its framework, an unsophisticated, deliberately simplified folk variety and an extremely complex, smooth pop variety coexist. The classic and king of reggae was and still is Bob Marley, who made his music the quintessence of all the hopes of rastafarians. His melodies were peaceful, danceable, unusual, but at the same time they carried a powerful political and social charge, calling on humanity to return to its roots.

Despite the fact that Bob Marley died in the early eighties of the last century, his recordings continue to be released, and many of them have never been released before. Rastafans consider Marley a prophet, without belittling his musical and poetic talents, they endow him with almost divine properties.

One of modern trends development of reggae - dub poetry. Its inventor was Linton Kwezi, he was the first to come up with the monotonous recitation of complex poetic