When you talk about rasta music, the first name that automatically comes to mind is the work of one Bob Marley. He was the one who put this type of music into a more international scale.
It started out as a blending of traditional Jamaican music along with American R&B which soon developed into ska which also progressed into reggae with an influence of soul. Marley made it popular all over the world, and soon a number of artists began incorporating this kind of sound into their own music. There are quite a number of artists who do this, including Peter Tosh, Freddie McGregor and Toots & the Maytals.
This influence is also clearly seen in the music of Honey B. She is a California-based lyricist and singjay. If you’re quite new to the term singjaying, it is basically a Jamaican style of reggae vocals that combines toasting and singing in an elastic format.
This encourages the production of vocal embellishments that are both compelling and texturally impressive. Of course, the performer of such vocals is called a singjay, which is a combination of singer and deejay.
The combination of both singing and deejaying has its early roots in reggae music. One of the earliest performers of singjaying is the artist Michael Rose. He integrated highly rhythmic but somewhat meaningless deejay scatting into his roots songs. By the 1980s, singjaying became a dominant way of expression in Jamaican music.
Her sound is a welcome addition to the world of rasta music and the future is bright as to where her musicality and talent will take her.
If you want to get to know her better, tune in for her Google Hangouts Live interview on The Philippe Matthews Show this coming July 24.
Download her track: Rocket!
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