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LEGENDARY JAMAICAN SINGER NORMA FRASER, RESURFACES IN EUGENE, OREGON!

  BY SOPHIA JUNE— Norma Fraser– “I met Sam Cooke and his wife Barbara, and he turned to her and said, ‘Why don’t you bring her to America with us? We like her,’”Norma Fraser recounts, bursting into laughter. Fraser has lived in Eugene for a decade and has a lifetime of stories like this, including recording with Bob Marley. Fraser’s parents didn’t even know she could sing until they heard her song on the radio; they wanted her to be a doctor. She didn’t plan to be a singer, much less a reggae legend, not singing a note until she was 14. Her rise to fame in ’60s Jamaica during reggae’s golden era was spawned by youthful rebellion: sneaking out. Fraser would tuck a change of clothes into her bag and ride her bike to see … Read entire article »

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JAMAICAN FEMALE SINGERS ENJOYING MORE THAN 50 YEARS OF MUSICAL SUCCESS!

Marcia Griffiths may easily have been the artist who benefit most from Bob Andy’s writing. He, not only wrote songs for her at the beginning of her career, but literally taught them to her line by line. Beginning as a nine-year-old on a 1964 Easter morning concert at the Carib Theatre in Cross Roads, the songs became the foundation on which Griffith built an illustrious career, which has spanned 50 years. Griffiths abundance of hits and her ability to remain current and consistent over 50 years, has no doubt earned for her the title, ‘The Queens of Reggae’. Her earliest hits, written by Andy and produced by Studio One monarch, Clement Dodd, included, Tell Me Now, Truly, Mark My Word, Melody Life, and the first of the batch, Feel Like Jumping, which came at the turn of the rocksteady-reggae transition of 1967-1968. Feel Like … Read entire article »

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