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Marcia Griffiths’ Melody Life: Reggae Legend Talks Bob Marley, Trailblazing for Female Artists & 60 Years In Music
Marcia Griffiths': Reggae legend on Bob Marley, trailblazing for female artists and 60 years in music.
She rehearsed a rendition of Carla Thomas’ raw soul ballad “I’ve Got No Time to Lose” with Lee’s band The Dragonaires; some of the musicians, however, were unhappy backing an inexperienced teenager. The lineup includes Shaggy, Tessanne Chin (season 5 winner of NBC’s The Voice), Tanya Stephens, deejays Busy Signal and Cutty Ranks and many surprise guest artists spanning different generations of Jamaican music. Standout tracks include “Dreamland,” an idyllic interpretation of American group the El Tempos’ 1963 original “My Dream Island”; an R&B-tinged remake of Bob Andy’s rocksteady repatriation anthem “I’ve Got to Go Back Home”; and the album’s most striking cut, “Survival (Is the Game),” on which Griffiths compassionately imparts words of solace to women in abusive relationships.
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