She has also long been a voice of representation for black women in the entertainment space, as per her 2009 hit ‘Lioness on The Rise’, or more recently her 2017 hit ‘Black Woman’. This new single is merely another chapter in the book of her legacy.“It was very exciting working with people I am familiar within the form of the band, young vibrant people such as the directors of the video Extreme Arts was a perfect match. Also, the communication from Ghetto Youths International team and Stephen Marley the process was easy” according to Queen Ifrica. All Rights Reserved.Stephen Marley hottest songs, singles and tracks, Coming Home, Medication (Remix), Made In Africa, Thorn Or A Rose, No Cigarette Smoke (In My Room).

It’s a special summer gathering, which includes a host of reggae artists, and is part of a yearlong celebration of what would have been the late Bob Marley’s 70th birthday.By the time Stephen was toddling around, his father had already gained superstar status, especially in England, where Bob decamped to record his Seventies classics for Island Records. Gong” Marley headline a bill that includes their nephew, Skip, and Stephen’s son Jo Mersa. Stephen 'Ragga' Marley Photo by Wonder KnackThis summer, the first Catch a Fire tour unites generations of reggae’s first family as Stephen “Ragga” Marley and his brother Damian “Jr. Produced by Grammy award winning artist and producer Stephen Marley, “Four Women” visuals will warm the hearts of music lovers all over the world.As women face gender-based violence, financial oppression, stereotypes within society based on their race and the damaging legacy of slavery the resurgence of the single “Four Women” is so timely. Directed by Extreme Arts, Queen Ifrica naturally personify Nina Simone through the royal images reflecting the many forms of our black women.“I was able to channel Nina Simone because I am connected to the four women mentioned throughout the song “Four Women” says Queen Ifrica.Premiering on TheFader, Friday, September 24, “Four Women” visuals is receiving great feedback as Queen Ifrica shared her own spin on Nina Simone’s 1966 single.The original song was released in 1966 on Simone’s ‘Wild Is the Wind’ album and spoke to a similar struggle that the women of our society still face today.

It’s the family business, indisputably.“Reggae is the foundation of this family. Inarguably, Bob Marley and the Wailers now stand as the Caribbean’s equivalent of the Beatles, and as popular as this music has become worldwide, it is also played a large part in the socially conscious roots reggae movement. Our parents instilled in us a sense of where we were from and who we were, and they didn’t want that part of the life.”This tour, which lands at Central Park’s SummerStage on August 30, is named for the Wailers’ 1973 album, which was the record that put the band on the map. We didn’t live that kind of life, we didn’t live in Beverly Hills. He was always our superstar he was special, he was dad. “I didn’t know anything about him being a superstar in that sense of the word.

That might seem at odds with a prevalent reefer-toking laid back image, but Bob Marley was serious about his music it was a spiritual experience and a social document.“He would teach us and sing with us,” says Marley, who at seven years old was performing with his elder siblings Ziggy, Sharon, and Cedella as the Melody Makers. So it wasn’t consciously a thing music was just all around us.”Maybe osmosis and smarts gave the Marley children their musical chops, but there was one lesson dad instilled in them, and that, says Stephen, was discipline. We’d fool around with instruments and be around rehearsals. “It was like being in a candy store with all these instruments around us twelve kids.

So I reached out and he came on board. “Mostly the song dictates a vibe,” says Marley, “and then you think, oh yeah, I’m hearing Rick Ross. Each artist was chosen to embellish the song and expand on the reggae notion. Whereas The Root of Life looked to the music that influenced reggae — from dancehall to jazz to salsa — The Fruit of Life looks at the music’s influence includes a ton of A-List guests, including Rick Ross, Pit Bull, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka, Dead Prez, Rakim, DJ Khaled, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, the Roots’ Black Thought, and also half-brother Ky-Mani Marley and Jo Mersa. You had to be serious about music for yourself.”Since those early days in the Melody Makers, Stephen has explored reggae through his own records, and never more so than on his latest albums: Revelation Part I: The Root of Life, which was released in 2011, and the upcoming hip-hop heavy Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life. “You could not just do it just because your father does it.

He was from the country on the island he moved to the ghetto then he moved out into the world. “My father brought pride to the people of Jamaica who saw where he was from and what he did. The song inspires you to incorporate other genres.”Bob Marley’s aspiration created a huge legacy not only for his family, but also the people of Jamaica, especially those living in poverty in shantytowns, the kind of place Bob Marley grew up in and wrote so eloquently about.

“Mmmm,” he eventually murmurs, as if coming to an agreement within himself. Marley pauses to think about this other picture outside of music making and being in the world, the one of a child and father. He wrote about his life.”Of course, there is sadness to this year, or any year since losing their father in 1981.

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