In commemoration of Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of Independence from Britain, the Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment section recognises 50 persons who made significant, yet unheralded, contributions to ...

Mill Rock Music Publishing Group, founded by Murray Elias and Christoffer Mannix Schlarb, has acquired the catalogue of legendary Jamaican composer, producer, musician and melodica master, the late ...

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Augustus Pablo, a widely influential reggae producer, died Tuesday at University Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 46 and lived in the hills outside Kingston. The cause was myasthenia gravis, a ...

Augustus Pablo (born Horace Swaby) passed away in May 1999, leaving behind one of the most formidable and influential bodies of work in the history of reggae; yet, he never achieved the international… ...

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Addis Pablo is a melodica player and composer from Jamaica. The son of the legendary Augustus Pablo, Addis and his sister Isis have carried on their father’s musical heritage both on stage and off.

This week’s working-from-home album is a stone-cold classic of dub: King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, the genre-defining collaboration between Augustus Pablo and King Tubby. If reggae music is the ...

Addis Pablo maintains the dub traditions that made his dad Augustus a legend. In Lancashire next month, Addis tells TONY DEWHURST that dub is ‘therapy’ Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

The digital age is an era Pablo has struggled to keep up with. Despite his earlier work being renowned in Japan, the UK and even the U.S. (where, rare for a reggae musician, all his music was released ...