Word: jamaica
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...Luciano Messenger (Island Jamaica) The Jamaican-born Luciano has a baritone voice as warm and deep as Montego Bay, and his songs boast ripe, mango-sweet melodies. His lyrics, however, focus on serious subjects such as poverty, spirituality and resisting oppression. The core of Luciano's brand of reggae is a smiling insurgency...
Looking beyond land mines, Parish foresees Omnitech technology being used in all sorts of repetitive and dangerous tasks--moving ore or tailings in a mine, hauling toxic wastes from an old dump, fighting oil-field fires. Omnitech is talking with Barbados and Jamaica about rigging vehicles used for dock transport in loading and unloading ships...
...best songs on the album. With her back-up band wrenching every bit of swagger and boom, Badu goes from a husky scat to a sonic howl that sounds like Mariah Carey after a massive infusion of soul. She does a medley of "Boogie Nights," "All Night" and "Jamaica Funk" that will bring a smile to lovers of '70s funk everywhere...
...Marley and Peter Tosh, partners in the group the Wailers and later solo superstars, were the imperial lions of reggae. Along with bandmate Bunny Wailer, they brought the music of Jamaica to a wider audience, establishing reggae as a genre of global reach and lasting import. Today you can hear their influence in the music of the hip-hop group the Fugees, the ska-rock band Sublime and even the Rolling Stones (Stones guitarist Keith Richards has a low-key Rastafarian drum-and-chant album out called Wingless Angels). Marley's career (he died in 1981) was rightly celebrated several...
...Jamaica Plain resident and a Somerville resident were arrested at 36 JFK St. after both parties were observed using drugs in the men's restroom...