Category: World Progressive, Reggae, Island / Caribbean / Hawaiian
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Satta
Woman Lover feat. Horace Andy
Dread In Loving
Dread Inna Captivity
First Love f. Hortense Ellis
Something On His Mind
Tappa Roots
No More To Row
Brutality f. Horace Andy
Morgan The Pirate
Understand
Melody Of Love
Ranking Dread and Massive Dread
While very little is known of these two artists it is known that whenever and wherever they performed it was to ecstatic crowds.
Both from Trenchtown, Jamaica, both growing up in the same area and both knowing Bob Marley and probably knew most of the other stars of reggae when reggae was in it's infancy back in the '60s.
Very little is known of RD and MD and there are very few recordings from either artist available to the public. Yet if you talk to people who knew and have seen them perform they will tell you they were great and were popular with the dancehall crowd.
RD got himself into more than a few brushes with the authorities and ended up on the run, eventually being extradited from Canada and imprisoned in Jamaica where he was killed.
MD and a group of men got together and organized and setup a not for profit school called "The Trenchtown Reading Centre" to address the needs of the community - it provided basic schooling and vocational programs, a youth club, and a library. The centre opened December 1993 and has thrived over the years and expanded but sadly MD has not seen the success of his work as he was also killed, probably due to political violence which was rampant in Jamaica.
The music and lyrics herein give some insight into the lives of these two men, these two talented artists who left so little yet so much behind....