Sly & Robbie landed on the Balkans!
Sly & Robbie, the most influential musicians and music producers in the world of reggae music today, were the headliners of the International Jazz Festival Nisville 2011. Balkan Music Box was the agent and provided organizational and administrative support for the concert.
Sly & Robbie featuring Junior Reid had a great concert on the International Jazz Festival Nisville, in Nis, Serbia, on August 11, 2011. The crowd gathered from all over the Balkans to enjoy this rare opportunity to experience reggae masters at work. Ex Balck Uhuru riddim section, together with an author of One Blood, had a performance that will be remembered. They have also held a workshop for young musicians.
SLY & ROBBIE
Theirs is the ultimate musical marriage, a partnership that, once formed, re-etched the very landscape of not just Jamaican music, but every kind of music. The rhythms of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare have been the driving force behind innumerable songs. They linked in 1975, but by then they had already become established figures on the Jamaican scene. Sly Dunbar had made his recorded debut with producer Lee Perry. Meanwhile, Shakespeare had also made a name for himself, and by the early '70s, he was a member of producer Bunny Lee's house band the Aggrovators.
As a production team, the pair has been the equivalent of a creative storm, the cutting edge of modern dub, ragga, and dancehall, producing with their own label, Taxi, numerous artists as Jimmy Cliff, the established French singer Serge Gainsbourg (his 1975 album Aux Armes et Cætera), Culture, Peter Tosh, Toots & the Maytals, Gregory Isaac, Max Romeo... They also provide the pulsing rhythms for albums of Bunny Wailer, the Mighty Diamonds, Jacob Miller, Barrington Levy...and tour all over the world with many bands including U-Roy, Peter Tosh, and Black Uhuru (opening for the Rolling Stones).
Over the years Sly & Robbie have consistently worked with artists far removed from the reggae scene, as Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Monty Alexander, Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones, Madonna, Simply Red... The breadth of their productions and playing seemingly knows no boundaries.
http://www.myspace.com/slyandrobbie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_Robbie
JUNIOR REID
Delroy "Junior" Reid is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for the songs "One Blood" and "Funny Man", as well as being the man that replaced Michael Rose as lead vocalist for Black Uhuru.
Reid was born in the Tower Hill area of Kingston, and had a tough upbringing in the city's Waterhouse district, notorious for being one of the most dangerous places in Jamaica. It was there in the politically turbulent late '70s that he recorded his first-ever single "Speak the Truth" at the age of 13, and popular as an import single in the UK. UK label Greensleeves Records followed this with "Know Myself" in 1981. He then went on to form his own band, the Voice of Progress, and after a local hit with "Mini-Bus Driver" the group scored local success with an album of the same name.
By the early 80's he enjoyed considerable popularity with tracks such as "Human Nature", "A1 Lover", and the evergreen "See How Me Black See How Me Shine", an uplifting and proud statement which became an anthem to the ghetto youth whom Reid increasingly championed. Reid was present at the 1983 shooting death of reggae singer Hugh Mundell. After a number of fine singles - which included "Youthman", "Bank Clerk", "Sufferation", "Give Thanks and Praises" and "Higgler Move" - his chance of a wider international audience came with the offer of replacing Michael Rose in Black Uhuru. Always a strong follower of Black Uhuru, and with a similar vocal style, Reid slipped into Rose's shoes with ease. The collaboration on his first Black Uhuru album, the Grammy-nominated “Brutal”, in 1986, was well received by all. Two years and two albums later, Junior went solo again and had a number 21 hit in the UK in 1988 "Stop This Crazy Thing", in collaboration with Coldcut, and number 5 in UK in 1990 "I'm Free" in collaboration with The Soup Dragons. Meanwhile, 1989's "One Blood" saw him re-established at the forefront of the reggae scene.
In 2000s, he regain his position of a top reggae star through collaboration with the biggest stars in hip-hop music: Wu-Tang Clan ("One Blood Under W"), Game ("It's Okay (One Blood)"), Fat Joe, Ludacris, Fabolous, Lil Wayne ("Ghetto Youths Rock")...
http://www.myspace.com/juniorreid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Reid
Press Coverage
http://www.blic.rs/Zabava/Vesti/252568/Legendarni-Sly---Robbie-sviraju-na-Nisvilu
http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=271&yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=06&nav_id=510563
http://www.juznevesti.com/Kultura/Sly--Robbie-dolaze-na-Nisville.sr.html
http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:341255-Nisvil-Svajcarci-na-traktoru
http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=271&yyyy=2011&mm=08&nav_id=531452
http://www.blic.rs/Kultura/Vesti/270893/Nebo-je-granica-za-rege-muziku
http://pressonline.rs/sr/vesti/regioni/story/171727/Muzika+sveta+u+ni%C5%A1koj+tvr%C4%91avi.html
