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    reggae
    [ noun ]
    popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
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    1. Most reveled with the sound of African drumbeats, Jamaican reggae and American jazz.
    2. The awards, announced off-camera prior to the televised show, also included a posthumous first-time Grammy for reggae star Peter Tosh, who was murdered in his Jamaica home last year.
    3. Many of its most loyal customers were from Trujillo, Honduras. The disk jockey played music ranging from salsa and reggae to the calypso popular on Honduras' Atlantic Coast.
    4. Hibbert, who has been making music since the early 1960s before the word reggae ever hit American music stores, is back with his first LP since 1981, "Toots in Memphis,' a collection of soul standards.
    5. It bought Island Records Ltd., a London-based company that specializes in rap and reggae music, in August for an estimated $300 million.
    6. Hibbert formed a permanent niche in reggae history by giving the music its name in a 1968 song, "Do the Reggay." "We were just playing around," Hibbert recalled. "We used to have slogans, jokes.
    7. "The best blessing I've had in my life is feeling I don't have to define the various influences. `Now we're going to do a reggae song, a jazz song.'
    8. In 1985, they released their first album, "Play the Game Right," which received a Grammy nomination for best reggae record.
    9. Someone than asked me if I was going to see `Misty in Roots' (a reggae band) tomorrow.
    10. But if you want the truly unusual, step down to the tiny Samurai Bar on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village, probably the world's only Japanese reggae bar.
    11. Rock star Freddy Mercury and reggae singer Eddie Grant are among the celebrities who agreed to help launch the four-year countdown for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.
    12. It was easier on stage." Despite his following in England, Priest is well aware of the difficulty that reggae artists have selling records in the United States.
    13. This was largely due to a unique style that combined pop, funk, reggae and soul.
    14. Marley and the Wailers did more to popularize and refine reggae than any other artists.
    15. Bob Marley, who brought the reggae music of Jamaica to international prominence, died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981.
    16. With a wonderful reggae soundtrack and the scenic beauty of Port Antonio, Jamaica, "The Mighty Quinn" is a smooth and exciting romp.
    17. It's up to the candidate to say `that's not me' or `I won't do that,"' Miller said. "Roger did what he was paid to do and he did an excellent job." A reggae version of Cat Stevens' "Wild World"? It wasn't Maxi Priest's idea.
    18. The British reggae band UB40 recorded a song about Tyler, and he was described by the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda in 1978 as a political prisoner.
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