Genre Ska - Page 22
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Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley. It developed from the earlier ska vocal group, the Wailers, created by Marley with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963.
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Los Fastidios is an Italian Oi! band. It was formed in Verona in 1991, however only one of the original band members remains. Songs of Los Fastidios deal with common life situations, as well as promoting equality, socialism and fight against discrimination. The band is often identified with the SHARP movement.
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Anything you can do, they can do SKA. Skatune Network is what happens when you get a person who really likes ska, as well as not ska, but wants to hear the not ska as ska, SO they use their skill to be kinda ok at every part of a band to re-create songs that aren't ska as ska songs.
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Culture Shock is an English ska punk band formed in Warminster, Wiltshire in 1986 by Dick Lucas, previously of the Subhumans. Over their four-year history the band played hundreds of gigs, including frequent appearances at free festivals, and released three studio albums on the Bluurg record label. Lucas lyrics were mostly concerned with social and political issues, from cruelty to animals, Northern Ireland, war, and social alienation, but were far from angry rants, often finding a positive and empowering perspective.
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Known as Notis Heavyweight Rockaz, the duo are graduates of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in St Andrew. They have gradually established themselves as session musicians, while producing songs by Iba Mahr, Christopher Martin and Charly Black.
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Dwight Pinkney (born 1945), also known as Brother Dee, is a Jamaican guitarist best known for his work as a session musician and as a member of Zap Pow and the Roots Radics, who since 1999 has recorded as a solo artist.
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A post-millennial ska, reggae and punk influenced collective. Born from a health scare and launched during a global pandemic. What could possibly go wrong?!
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The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez on horns. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude". Lyrically, they present a "more focused and informed political and social stance".