![]() ![]() ![]() Their championing of Black Uhuru also helped give that group its stellar status in the wake of Bob Marley’s death, resulting in the first reggae Grammy award in 1985. ![]() In the realm of reggae, Sly and Robbie first caused a stir while backing singer Peter Tosh in the mid-70s, and the spotlight was placed directly onto their own creativity later that decade through hits on their Taxi label with Gregory Isaacs, the Tamlins, Jimmy Riley and Junior Delgado. Much of the outside world became aware of the ‘Rhythm Twins’ through their work with transplanted Jamaican sensation Grace Jones, or via later collaborations with the Stones, Serge Gainsbourg, Herbie Hancock and Bob Dylan. Without them, Jamaican popular music would have taken a very different course. That’s according to the famed drum and bass duo themselves, anyway, and regardless of the veracity of that claim, they are certainly responsible for much more music than is typically acknowledged. Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare are the most famous Jamaican rhythm section of all time, and there are at least 200,000 reasons why. ![]()
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