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“CHAINED TO RHYTHM” BY KATY PERRY & SKIP MARLEY, GOES PLATINUM AND GOLD IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES!

 Skip Marley (left) and Katy Perry perform during The 59th Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, recently.Photo: Larry Busacca— Chained to the Rhythm the hit single by Katy Perry and featuring Jamaican Skip Marley has been certified platinum in Australia and gold in Canada, Italy, New Zealand and Spain, and silver in the UK. The song peaked at number one in Croatia, Mexico and Latvia. It reached the Top 5 in 12 countries and Top 10 in 16 countries. … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY’S “LIONS” BENEFITS FROM SYNCH IN CONTROVERSIAL PEPSI COMMERCIAL!

By Kristin Corpuz— Donald Traill/Invision/AP Skip Marley performs at The Paramount on Sept. 1, 2015 in New York City. The song surges to new weekly highs in streams and sales. Following the controversy surrounding Pepsi’s viral ad starring Kendall Jenner, Skip Marley‘s debut single “Lions,” which serves as the musical soundtrack to the commercial, sports gains in streams and sales and on Billboard charts. After the ad premiered April 4, “Lions” roared by 1,749 percent to a new weekly high of 4 million U.S. streams in the week ending April 6, according to Nielsen Music. It also bounded by 383 percent to 2,000 downloads sold in the same tracking period, likewise its best weekly sum. It re-enters the Reggae Digital Song Sales chart (dated April 22) at a new best rank of No. 2 and rises to a … Read entire article »

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HAS REGGAE COME TO TOP 40 POP MUSIC?

By Hugh McIntyre—-   (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS) Last month, Katy Perry dropped her new single “Chained To The Rhythm,” officially kicking off the campaign surrounding her highly-anticipated upcoming new album. The pop star has been promoting the song intensely since it dropped, taking to the main stage at both the Grammys and the BRIT Awards with her companion Skip Marley, who is featured on the track. The song debuted at No. 4 on the Hot 100, giving Perry yet another smash hit to her credit, and Marley his first. In fact, the immediate success of the single gave the Marley family their first top 10-charter in history, including the up-and-coming artist’s grandfather, who is widely considered to be the man who brought the style to the world stage. Nothing else has been heard … Read entire article »

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THE RISE OF A NEW GENERATION – COULD SKIP MARLEY’S HISTORIC HIGHLIGHT MAKE NEW INROADS FOR REGGAE MUSIC?

THE RISE OF A NEW GENERATION – COULD SKIP MARLEY’S HISTORIC HIGHLIGHT MAKE NEW INROADS FOR REGGAE MUSIC?

By Shereita Grizzle— File Marley brothers (from left) Stephen, Ky-Mani, Jr Gong and Julian in performance at the recent Redemption Live concert.— It may be hard to believe that it took the Marley’s three generations to achieve a top 10 hit on the US, Billboard Hot 100 charts, but that’s the reality. Bob Marley’s grandson, Skip Marley, made history earlier this week when his collaboration with pop superstar Katy Perry on, Chained to the Rhythm, peaked at number four … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY SCORES THE MARLEY’S FAMILY FIRST BILLBOARD TOP 10 ON POP CHART!

By Gary Trust Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NARAS Skip Marley and Katy Perry perform onstage during The 59th Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Feb. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles. Katy Perry’s “Chained to the Rhythm,” featuring Bob Marley’s grandson, launches at No. 4, easily the highest-charting Hot 100 hit by a member of the first family of reggae. As previously reported, Katy Perry blasts onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated March 4) at No. 4 with “Chained to the Rhythm,” featuring Skip Marley. The song, released Feb. 10 and which Perry and Marley performed on the Grammy Awards Feb. 12, debuts at No. 3 on the Digital Song Sales chart, with 108,000 downloads sold in the week ending Feb. 16, according to Nielsen Music, following its release on Feb. 10, and No. 15 on … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY IS NOW SIGNED TO ISLAND RECORDS!

“We are the lions, we are the chosen We gonna shine out the dark We are the movement, this generation You better know who we are, who we are.” (“Lions” by Skip Marley) Island Records is excited to announce the signing of Skip Marley, a reggae prodigy for a new generation. Skip’s debut single “Lions,” is an intense call to action that “shows people when we are strong and unified no evil can get us.” “We are so proud to have Skip Marley join the Island family,” said David Massey, President/CEO Island Records.  “His talent is extraordinary and his music reflects what the world needs right now.  For Island to continue our history with the amazing Marley family is an honor.  Skip’s unique style and point of view is going to set the world on fire.” “Yea if … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY APPEARS IN GAP’S NEW ‘1969 DENIM’ AD CAMPAIGN!

“The Gap asked me what makes me feel most alive.” – Skip Next generation Marley family member and musician, Skip Marley has been included in the GAP clothing company’s new online social media promotion campaign promoting their ‘1969 DENIM’ clothing line with people that “live the spirit” of those known for the style they wear.  “The Gap asked me what makes me feel most alive,” Skip explains about the video ad while shooting in the sunshine of California.  “Music Is Life” cited the young artist and that his grandfather Bob Marley and his uncles have preferred to be outfitted in denim spanning the generations.  Skip has had a impressive start to 2016 with stellar performances in Jamaica at the One Love Fest and Marley71 Celebration, the GAP’s 1969 Denim campaign and … Read entire article »

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CEDELLA MARLEY, THE FIRST BORN MARLEY MATRIARCH – TALKS BUILDING A GLOBAL BRAND!

CEDELLA MARLEY, THE FIRST BORN MARLEY MATRIARCH – TALKS BUILDING A GLOBAL BRAND!

Cedella Marley STORY: DOREEN ST. FÉLIX PHOTO: BRAD OGBONNA The sound of Cedella Marley‘s name bears the double weight of matrilineal and patrilineal memory, as if her parents had arranged her name with rhythm and acoustics in mind. It’s known that in 1967, in Kingston, Jamaica, a young Bob Marley named his first child after one of his own great mentors: his mother. Forty-eight years later, Cedella Marley walks across the living room floor of her home in … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY IS BREATHING NEW LIFE IN HIS FAMILY’S MUSIC!

SKIP MARLEY IS BREATHING NEW LIFE IN HIS FAMILY’S MUSIC!

BY ELVIS ANDERSON— Nine Miles, Jamaica. Photo by Melissa Espinoza From a little place in the steep, green hills of Jamaica known as Nine Miles, music was changed forever. People here live off the land and trap drinking water from their roofs. Nesta Robert Marley is from here. You may know him better as Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae star who would forever change the way people looked at his native island. Marley’s friend and Wailers Artistic Director Neville Garick … Read entire article »

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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE ONE LOVE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN MONTEGO BAY!

 By Horace Hines—  Skip Marley performing at the One Love Music Festival, held at the Aqueduct at Rose Hall in Montego Bay—. ROSE HALL, St James — Impressive performances highlighted the inaugural One Love Music Festival put on by Tuff Gong International. Held at the Aqueduct from Friday night into Saturday morning, it would have made reggae icon Bob Marley proud. Action kicked off on Thursday night with a charity gala on the lawns of the nearby Rose Hall Great House featuring Marcia Griffiths and Benjy Myaz. But it was Marley’s grandson, Skip Marley, whose demeanour, appearance and vocals captured and replicated the persona of the ‘Gong’, who would have been 71 yesterday. Son of Cedella Marley, he had the audience transfixed. He eased through Rastaman Vibration, Coming in From the Cold and Three Little Birds, … Read entire article »

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