Sly & Robbie

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Sly & Robbie at a concert with Nils Petter Molvær at the TFF Rudolstadt , 2015
Sly Dunbar, 1979
Robbie Shakespeare, 1978

Sly & Robbie is a Jamaican musician - and producer - duo consisting of the drummer Sly Dunbar and the bassist and keyboardist Robert Shakespeare , who is particularly known for his reggae and dub productions and largely the reggae rhythms of the 1970s and 1980s coined.

biography

Sly & Robbie formed the rhythm section of the Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru for years . They also worked on albums by Peter Tosh , Gregory Isaacs , Culture and many other reggae artists. They also became known under the name The Riddim Twins .

In 1978 they founded their own reggae label Taxi , where they and numerous other artists recorded and produced together with the Taxi Gang .

After they had won the first ever reggae Grammy for Anthem in 1985 with Black Uhuru , they won another Grammy in 1999 as a duo with the album Friends in the category Best Reggae Album .

Discography

Albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK R&B R&B
1987 Rhythm Killers
Island 90585
- - UK35 (5 weeks)
UK
-
First published: April 1987
Producer: Bill Laswell , Material
1989 Silent Assassin
Island 91277
- - - R&B71 (13 weeks)
R&B
First published: November 1989
Producer: Suzette Newman
2018 Nordub
Okeh
DE46 (1 week)
DE
AT57 (1 week)
AT
- -
Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær feat. Eivind Aerset and Vladislav Delay
First published: April 6, 2018

More albums

  • 1979: Disco Dub
  • 1980: Gamblers Choice
  • 1981: The 60's, 70's into the 80's = taxi
  • 1981: Syncopation
  • 1982: Dub Rockers Delight
  • 1982: Taxi Connection (with The Taxi Gang)
  • 1985: Language Barrier
  • 1985: Padlock
  • 1985: A Dub Experience (Island Records Inc.)
  • 1988: The Summit (UK)
  • 1997: Friends ( Grammy Best Reggae Album )
  • 1999: Drum and Bass Strip to the Bone feat. Howie B.
  • 1999: X-Uhuru
  • 2001: In Good Company
  • 2002: Dub Transmission Specialists - Off Duty
  • 2003: Late Night Tales
  • 2004: Sly & Robbie Meet the Mad Professor
  • 2004: Born version
  • 2006: Rhythm Doubles
  • 2014: Dubrising
  • 2014: Underwater Dub
  • 2017: Sly & Robbie Revisit Bob Marley

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE UK UK Dance Dance
1985 Make 'Em Move
Language Barrier
- UK83 (3 weeks)
UK
-
First published: November 1985
from the soundtrack of the film Good to Go
Authors: Afrika Bambaataa , Bernie Worrell ,
Bill Laswell , Robbie Shakespeare , Sly Dunbar
1987 Boops (Here to Go)
Rhythm Killers
- UK12 (11 weeks)
UK
Dance22 (7 weeks)
Dance
First published: March 1987
Authors: Bootsy Collins , Shinehead,
Bill Laswell, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar
Fire
Rhythm Killers
- UK60 (4 weeks)
UK
-
First published: July 1987
Authors and original: Ohio Players , 1974
1997 Night Nurse
Friends
DE84 (6 weeks)
DE
UK13 (8 weeks)
UK
-
First release: September 1997
feat. Simply Red
Authors: Gregory Isaacs, Sylvester Weise
Original: Gregory Isaacs , 1982
Penny Lover
Friends
- UK94 (1 week)
UK
-
First release: December 1997
feat. Ambilique
Authors: Lionel Richie, Brenda Harvey-Richie
Original: Lionel Richie , 1984

More singles

  • 1981: Stampede (release: October 2nd)
  • 1985: Get to This, Get to That (release: July)
  • 1987: Yes We Can Can
  • 1989: Dance Hall
  • 1989: Back to Base
  • 1994: Somewhere Version
  • 2012: Unmetered Taxi (with Dean Fraser and Robbie Lyn)

swell

  1. Sly & Robbie at Laut.de
  2. grammy.com - Past Winners Search . Retrieved February 20, 2012.
  3. a b Chart sources: DE UK Billboard Hot 100
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
  5. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

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