Mutabaruka is the name chosen by Allan Hope to represent their enormous change: his conversion from Catholicism Rastafarian religion to his native Jamaica, his abandonment of the "civilized world" and his retreat to the mountains, his barter a seat on a bench at the harshness of being a dub poet.
His first poems appeared in the Jamaica Swing music magazine in 1971.
Some of them were: Outcry, Sun and Moon, and The blook.
His poems have given voice to a nation and helped forge a new genre of music: DUB POETRY . Also adopted by artists like Linton Kwesi Johnson , Oku Onuora, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jean "Binta" Breeze, Yasusada Afari, etc.
Muta's words are so powerful in a role as a disk. And has also ventured into the musical direction, along with guitarist China Smith & High Times Band.
far has Mutabaruka numerous recordings, including: Check It! (Alligator), Dub Poets Dub (Heartbeat) Outcry (Shanachie), The Mystery Unfolds (Shanachie), Any Which Way ... Freedom (Shanachie), Life Squared (Heartbeat) and many more, besides having had his own show Irie Fm radio.
Matabaruka without doubt one of the most relevant figures in Jamaican culture.
These are his 'The 50 Most Influential Jamaican Recordings'
(1) Redemption Song-Bob Marley
(2) One Love - (ska version)
Wailers (3) Legalise It - Peter Tosh
(4) Fight 'gainst apartheid-Peter Tosh
(5) Get Up Stand Up-Bob Marley
(6) Day-O Harry Belafonte
(7) War -Bob Marley
(8) Equal Rights -Peter Tosh
(9) Rivers of Babylon -The Melodians
(10) African -Peter Tosh
(11) Island in the Sun -Harry Belafonte
(12) Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
(13) The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
(14) No Woman No Cry -Bob Marley
(15) Electric Boogie -Marcia Griffiths
(16) Many Rivers to Cross -Jimmy Cliff
(17) Blackheart Man -Bunny Wailer
(18) Pass the Kutchie -The Mighty Diamonds
(19) Blackwoman - Judy Mowatt
(20) Satta Amassagana - The Abbasinians
(21) Boom Bye Bye -Buju Banton
(22) Dis Poem -Mutabaruka
(23) Young Gifted and Black -Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths
(24) Kung Fu Fighting -Carl Douglas
(25) Whiteman Country -Mutabaruka
(26) Seven Miles of Black Starliner - Fred Locks
(27) Bangarang - Stranger Cole
(28) Israelites -Desmond Dekker
(29) She's Royal - Tarrus Riley
(30) Blackwoman and Child -Sizzla
(31) Sonny's Lettah -Linton Johnson
(32) Revolution -Dennis Brown
(33) Two Sevens - Clash Culture
(34) Confucius - Don Drummond
(35) One Blood - Junior Reid
(36) Don't Affi Dread -Morgan Heritage
(37) Sleng Teng -Wayne Smith
(38) Bad Boys - Inner Circles
(39) 96 Degrees in the Shade -Third World
(40) Promise Land -Dennis Brown
(41) Fire Pon Rome-Anthony B
(42) King Tibby Meets Rockers - Augustus Pablo
(43) Solidarity - Black Uhuru
(44) If Jah is Standing by My Side Tony Rebel-
(45) Dread Inna Babylon - Big Youth
(46)-The Congos Fisherman
(47) Cocaine In My Brain-Dillinger
(48) Try Jah Love-Third World
(49) East of the River Nile - Pablo
Agustus (50) Since I Throw the Comb Away-The Twinkle Brothers
His first poems appeared in the Jamaica Swing music magazine in 1971.
Some of them were: Outcry, Sun and Moon, and The blook.
His poems have given voice to a nation and helped forge a new genre of music: DUB POETRY . Also adopted by artists like Linton Kwesi Johnson , Oku Onuora, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jean "Binta" Breeze, Yasusada Afari, etc.
Muta's words are so powerful in a role as a disk. And has also ventured into the musical direction, along with guitarist China Smith & High Times Band.
far has Mutabaruka numerous recordings, including: Check It! (Alligator), Dub Poets Dub (Heartbeat) Outcry (Shanachie), The Mystery Unfolds (Shanachie), Any Which Way ... Freedom (Shanachie), Life Squared (Heartbeat) and many more, besides having had his own show Irie Fm radio.
Matabaruka without doubt one of the most relevant figures in Jamaican culture.
These are his 'The 50 Most Influential Jamaican Recordings'
(1) Redemption Song-Bob Marley
(2) One Love - (ska version)
Wailers (3) Legalise It - Peter Tosh
(4) Fight 'gainst apartheid-Peter Tosh
(5) Get Up Stand Up-Bob Marley
(6) Day-O Harry Belafonte
(7) War -Bob Marley
(8) Equal Rights -Peter Tosh
(9) Rivers of Babylon -The Melodians
(10) African -Peter Tosh
(11) Island in the Sun -Harry Belafonte
(12) Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
(13) The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
(14) No Woman No Cry -Bob Marley
(15) Electric Boogie -Marcia Griffiths
(16) Many Rivers to Cross -Jimmy Cliff
(17) Blackheart Man -Bunny Wailer
(18) Pass the Kutchie -The Mighty Diamonds
(19) Blackwoman - Judy Mowatt
(20) Satta Amassagana - The Abbasinians
(21) Boom Bye Bye -Buju Banton
(22) Dis Poem -Mutabaruka
(23) Young Gifted and Black -Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths
(24) Kung Fu Fighting -Carl Douglas
(25) Whiteman Country -Mutabaruka
(26) Seven Miles of Black Starliner - Fred Locks
(27) Bangarang - Stranger Cole
(28) Israelites -Desmond Dekker
(29) She's Royal - Tarrus Riley
(30) Blackwoman and Child -Sizzla
(31) Sonny's Lettah -Linton Johnson
(32) Revolution -Dennis Brown
(33) Two Sevens - Clash Culture
(34) Confucius - Don Drummond
(35) One Blood - Junior Reid
(36) Don't Affi Dread -Morgan Heritage
(37) Sleng Teng -Wayne Smith
(38) Bad Boys - Inner Circles
(39) 96 Degrees in the Shade -Third World
(40) Promise Land -Dennis Brown
(41) Fire Pon Rome-Anthony B
(42) King Tibby Meets Rockers - Augustus Pablo
(43) Solidarity - Black Uhuru
(44) If Jah is Standing by My Side Tony Rebel-
(45) Dread Inna Babylon - Big Youth
(46)-The Congos Fisherman
(47) Cocaine In My Brain-Dillinger
(48) Try Jah Love-Third World
(49) East of the River Nile - Pablo
Agustus (50) Since I Throw the Comb Away-The Twinkle Brothers
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