BLACK UHURU
Dub/Ska/Reggae • Jamaica
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Long-running Jamaican roots reggae group who were popular from the late '70s through to the '90s.
The most successful of the second-generation reggae bands, Jamaica's Black Uhuru maintained their high quality despite numerous personnel changes throughout their many decades together. The first reggae band to win a Grammy award, for their 1983 album Anthem, Black Uhuru offered a dynamic and progressive sound during their 1970s and early-'80s heyday. Led by mainstay Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, a reunion of the group's earliest lineup enjoyed renewed critical acclaim in the early '90s with albums like Now and Strongg before fragmenting into warring factions and a lawsuit that earned Simpson possession of the band name, which he continued to use into the new millennium on 2001's Dynasty. Aside from some collaborative appearances between Simpson and '80s-era member Michael Rose, the remainder of the 2000s yielded only rumors of a long-awaited Black Uhuru album, As
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Red
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1981
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Chill Out
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1982
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Anthem
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1983
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Brutal
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1986
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Positive
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1987
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Now Dub
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1990
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Strongg
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1994
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Dynasty
Dub/Ska/Reggae
2001
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Live
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1993
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Live 84
Dub/Ska/Reggae
2000
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