Like the legions of many, I am a Grace Jones fan. There’s just something about Grace Jones that makes you shake your head & want to say “you go Bitch”, in the most lovingly respectful I’m in…
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Global Fusion Playlist:Reggae:The Story Of Jamaican Music
As Black Music Month approaches in America in June thanks to former president Jimmy Carter who on June 7, 1979, decreed that June would be the month of black music, I have decided to post up the stories of…
more »Global Fusion Playlist:Buju Banton Triple Play 4 Our Global Times: Destiny, Politics Time Again, Untold Stories
It seems Nina Simone’s words “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times. how can you be an artist & not reflect the times?”, needs to be heralded more than ever because there are way too many stories that are…
more »Global Fusion Playlist:@The Movies-” Marley “- the Bob Marley Documentary
“The opening shot of the film will feature a tour of Cape Coast Castle, a fortification in Ghana that contains the infamous “Door of No Return” through which many Africans passed before being shipped into slavery. I want to suggest…
more »Global Fusion Playlist: Morgan Heritage – People Hungry (2008 Drop It Riddim)
The is dedicated to Global Fusionists World Wide because all around the word same song! This song speaks to the state of our world today. You can’t keep people hungary for too long & keep blaming the minum wage because…
more »Global Fusion Playlist: RIP Gregory Isaacs (15 July 1951 – 25 October 2010)
The man known around the world for his smooth rhythms that made every woman profess to be a night nurse & every man want to find him one has received his angel’s wings. Gregory Isaacs was a smooth…
more »Honoring & Taking Heed to the Words, Life & Stories of our Elders!
Being a Ghanaian, you are raised from birth to honor your elders & to seek their wisdom. Somewhere down the line of generations & forced & desired travels many of us have lost our way in seeking the wisdom of…
more »Global Fusion Playlist :Bob Marley And The Wailers- Chances Are Studio 1 Classics
When Bob Marley sang “I’m a soul rebel”, he literally meant it in the fact that his early recordings with the Wailers leaned toward the sound of Soul, Jazz,Blues & Ska more reminiscent of the heyday of Motown…
more »Global Fusion Playlist: Spragga Benz- Shotta Culture
It’s been awhile since we heard a new album released from Carlton Errington Grant AKA Spragga Benz. Well it has been well worth the wait because after the death of his son in 2008 at the hands of the Kingston…
more »Jamaica & Ghana One Blood -One Language? Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons Similar To Akan
I have always understood that Jamaicans are descendants of enslaved Africans from West Africa & Ghana in particular, but I never realized just how similar our roots run hundreds of years after slavery. As Brazilians in Salvador de…
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