Many credit the 1972 film The Harder They Come with introducing reggae music to international audiences. Without question, it was around that period that acts such as The Wailers (featuring Bob Marley ...
An uncompromising voice for equality, justice, the legalization of marijuana and the Rastafari way of life, Tosh was a founding member of The Wailers alongside the late Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. By ...
Thirty years after he was murdered at his Kingston, Jamaica, home by a longstanding acquaintance he had befriended, reggae icon Peter Tosh's multi-faceted legacy will be celebrated at the inaugural… ...
Representatives of the Peter Tosh Foundation take over 4/20 to honor the iconic singer’s legacy of cannabis advocacy. The Peter Tosh Foundation, Legacy & Brands, with marketing by Launchpad Worldwide, ...
1. Legendary Reggae Pioneer: October 19 would have marked Peter Tosh’s 79th birthday. Born as Winston Hubert McIntosh in Westmoreland, he left an indelible mark on the world of reggae, celebrated for ...
Kingston. On postcards, it’s a watercolor hallucination. Too blue, too gentle, too serene to be real. To the south, the Caribbean glows that impossible warm turquoise, the kind that makes tourists ...
Do you know the one good thing about music? “When it hits, you feel no pain.” At least that’s what Bob Marley sang with the Wailers back in 1975’s “Trenchtown Rock.” With Bob gone and the 30th ...
SOMERVILLE — What happened to Peter Tosh’s Grammy Award? That’s the question being asked after a Davis Square pawnshop became an unlikely player in the protracted family drama of the late reggae ...
For many of Peter Tosh’s fans and admirers, the slender 6′ 1” musician struck a striking figure. He was an extremely stirring composer, an audacious lyricist, inventive musician, extraordinary ...
In response to the Jamaican government’s refusal to allow Black Power supporter Dr Walter Rodney permission to re-enter Jamaica after his trip to a black writers conference in Montreal, The Rodney ...
A lost Peter Tosh master recording is unearthed in this clip from Studio 17 – The Lost Reggae Tapes, a 2019 documentary about the Jamaica’s legendary Randy’s Records studio. “Formed by a ...