Happy Birthday: Bob Marley

Today would have been the 70th birthday of legendary music icon Robert "Bob" Marley, the "King of Reggae". Although gone in physical form, his spirit and music lives on in the hearts and minds of many. This weekend in Houston there will be festivities from the 1st Fridays crew with their Shades of Red party on tonight, and the Bob Marley Wear Affair that will feature the veteran sounds of Everton Blender on tomorrow. Support and enjoy!

Friday Flashback: Sizzla

Wishing everybody that reads this LOVE, PEACE and OVERSTANDING. Keep your head up and never give up. Nuff RAS-pect to Sizzla Kalonji for "Rise To The Occasion", a massive tune which is the title cut off his 2003 album of the same name.

Happy Birthday: Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley
(February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981)
Today is the day the King of Reggae was born in Nine Mile, Jamaica in 1945. Marley is highly reverend as a performer and the most widely known Reggae artist who took the Rastafarian movement and the music to a worldwide audience. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.