The epitome of style and beauty doesn’t change nor will it ever be. Cuts and trims of fabrics may vary as time flies by but the real grace and flair of fashion never dies. You can obviously recognize it by your naked eyes from fashion television, from magazines, or even from your day to day encounter with strangers strolling inside malls, walking in the streets and most especially in schools. It goes to show that fashion isn’t just about glamour, not just about its allure, its class and all about expensive brands! But it basically comes from what picture we are trying to portray, how we try to place ourselves in the domain we are living! It comes from our everyday dealings. What influences us? Who influences us? Or just simply conveying of...

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If the true and real test for a music performer is within a live presentation or performance then there can be absolutely no exclusions, no second possibilities. Over and over, Cebu's pride and very own - Bambu Spliff sets the stage and continues to burn it down by their unique material that breathes all the blaze of Reggae. However this particular group melds their own musical fashion straight into a new complex and intensive music, achieving reputation through fanatics throughout the community. Bambu Spliff’s music contradicts accurate classification. Talking to upon jazz, soul, hip-hop, rock and roll, blues-with reggae as being the anchor of every single music. Their own songs is actually motivated by several musicians for instance Bob Marley...

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■■■ Ilonggo Reggae entitled Inday by Raffy Buenavides, a band from Dumaguete City, Philippines. One of some fine reggae band in the Visayas islands.  The song is about a man who shows affection of his undying love to the woman he loves so much. That he is willing to give it all just to have her. Video by: IZIEYOUCheck some of our videos at YoutubeIZIEYOU | Hashifi...

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We recently had our Grand Alumni Homecoming but wasnt able to due to certain circumstances. But as to pay tribute to my Alma Mater, I collected some of the photos of my batchmates and created a very simple slideshow video. Since most of us get connected through Facebook, I recently downloaded a song from a very good reggae artist named Lady Saw and apparently she had this very good track entitled "Facebook" Full credits to BFM Digital for the audio track used in the slideshow&nbs...

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I recently bumped into a discussion of what reggae group/band first came in the Philippine music scene. Some said that it is Spy which apparently not the first reggae band. At some point, someone mentioned Cocojam, Eurasia and Tropical Depression. Well, there is really no exact information of who is really the first ever reggae band in the Philippines. Most people would gauge it on popularity but I think it's not how it's measured.  Famous or not, that is not exactly the point. Well, if ever it is Cocojam, I managed to gather bits and pieces of information of the band. Got it from a Friendster account. I am not sure if this is reliable enough, maybe it happened somehow. COCOJAM has pioneered and stayed alive in the music scene with its...

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I downloaded a PDF file entitled Story of Bob Marley. I got interested because the documents entails memorable dates that tackles events regarding his life (Bob Marley). Upon reading Wikipedia, somehow, most details on the document were somehow similar. I don't know which came out first but one thing is certain, they both coincides. This is very interesting for me since I like most of his song and the unforgettable events of his life and how he became a legend and an icon. 1945 - Robert Nesta  Marley is born in a tiny hilltop village called Nine Miles, in the parish of St. Ann in northern Jamaica at 2:30 in the morning of February 6. His father is in his 50s, a white Jamaican named Norval Marley. His mother is the 19-year-old Cedella...

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 Close observation of hard-core dancehall music will reveal that there is a tendency to embrace, endorse and promote some of the most disgusting and decadent lifestyles. Most try to adopt an hypocritical stance of portraying themselves as being defenders of the oppressed, however they encourage and assist in promoting the characteristics and mannerisms that has over the years, and continues to keep our brothers and sisters in psychological bondage. With the exception of a few, most dancehall artists have contributed to the music being seen and interpreted as a quarrelsome style music, which is steeped in confrontations that often times becomes physical. Inspiration for the writing of a song is usually inspired by ether a domestic...

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I have listened a lot of reggae music but this one artist really catches my attention. After seeing his video tribute to the late Legend Bob Marley and realizing that it was good, I tried listening to his other songs, although it was not English, but just by the beat and rhythm of the song convinced me that his songs are good. Apparently, most of us doesn't really know who Teddy Afro is, I made quick researches for his bio, luckily got one over at LastFM's wiki. One of my favorite Teddy Afro track is the Tribute Song for Bob Marley entitled Bob Marley. See video below. (grabbed from Youtube) Tewodros Kassahun aka Teddy AfroJuly 14, 1976 Teddy Afro (Tewodros Kassahun, in Amharic:) is undoubtedly an Ethiopian music sensation and one of the...

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This band is one of the most sought after reggae band in the country. Most people know who they are and the kind of music they play, but not all people know every single soul who is behind the jivin' music we reggae lovers love. ABOUT THE BANDIt shouldn’t be hard to imagine why the sensational dance-rhythm phenomenon with a delirious and bewildering backbeat known as reggae, would find itself in familiar territory nearly 180 degrees around the equator and instantly infect a pair of commonfolk siblings with its fever, to eventually form BROWNMAN REVIVAL. Started in late 1994, the band re-captures the original groove and spirit of the reggae vibe, when reggae appealed more to the heart and the hips, infusing it further with pop undertones that...

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Karasak Hill 522 is reggae band hailing from Eastern Visayas State University whose music is a fusion of different bits of music that synthesize into a perfect whole. Rock, horns, keyboards, groove and jam are intertwined for a mixture of music that definitely frees the mind. The band is consist of Dan Margallo – Vocals/Guitarist, Zion Francis Pimaco – Bass, Steve Noel Baño – Drums, Jesse Joe Olaya – Percussion, Jude Constantine Dumas – Saxophone Their song Rasta Reggae Music which became a finalist at a band competition, Nescafe Soundskool  sponsored by Nestle. So, for all those who loves reggae, I bet you will surely love their music. Video Credits: My Youtube P...

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The origins of Reggae can be traced back to the many forms of folk music that were popular in Jamaica in the 1950's. The first recorded Jamaican music was Mento which drew heavily from all the forms of folk music. It was often referred to as Jamaican Calypso, however only some of the more uptempo Mento tunes sounded similar to Calypso. Mento music had begun in the 1940's and by the time it reached the first Jamaican recording studio in the winter of 1951-52, it was well-established and very popular. In the 1940's the phenomenon known as the 'sound system' began to replace live musicians, principally because it was cheaper. The sound systems played US R&B and later their own Jamaican-recorded R&B, which although initially...

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Throughout the span of a 22-year musical profession, a lot of thoughts have already been accustomed to recognize Tropical Depression, but usually, their very own name says it all: a group that gives one hell of a storm anywhere it performs. Tropical Depression has broken stylistic boundaries and scrambled musical styles like no other group performing nowadays. Tropical Depression focuses a distinctive kind of domestic and enticing riddims that of world-wise, mindful and spiritual music. Growing out of the band members’ love and affinity for Reggae and its offshoots, Tropical Depression created a new idiom in music and at the same time functioning as the gateway in introducing the essential Reggae Riddim to the country. Tropical Depression...

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Popong Landero is a Davao-based artist who earned his moniker “Kaliweteng Gitarista” in 1978 after his first single swept the airwaves. Known for being a left-handed guitarist and for his reggae covers of Bob Marley. In his teen years , Popong Landero sang his own songs, co-founded a music group named Masang Himig, quit schooling and earned his basic survival means through his musical talent. A singer with a mind of his own, he would insist on using his left hand to write, to hold an axe, and to play his guitar,in spite of his father's insistence early on that he eat with his right hand. It may have been an awkward process but his music was never stunted. He would invert chord books while he was still learning how to play the guitar. It was...

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I have been an avid listener of Bob Marley's songs, I tried doing a quick research for quotes base on his undying songs. Here are a few quotes collected from random websites. Check it out Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. Tell the children the truth. The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. You have to be someone.  isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. Every time I...

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Reggae is the heartbeat of Jamaica - a brand of reggae music as strongly identified with the island as R&B is with Detroit or jazz with new reggae Orleans. It's a major factor in the Jamaican economy, at no time better demonstrated than during Reggae Sunsplash and Reggae Sumfest (enormous annual reggae festivals), when almost one-quarter million visitors arrive from overseas to dance and sway in delirious union to the soulful, syncopated beat on the tiny island. Reggae evolved in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, born of the tensions and social protest simmering violently in the late 1960's. Jamaicans will tell you that reggae means "coming from de people," a phrase coined (as was the name reggae itself) by Toots Hibbert of...

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