if no then who?
2006-08-07 04:12:57 · 12 answers · asked by Joe KMD 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae
No it was not Bob Marley, even though he is the central force in making reggae mainstream
2006-08-07 04:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. nobody knows who the first was.
Origins
See also Music of Jamaica
Its origins can be found in traditional African Caribbean music as well as US R&B. Ska and rocksteady are 1960s precursors of reggae. In 1963, Jackie Mittoo, pianist with the ska band The Skatalites was asked to run sessions and compose original music by record producer Coxsone Dodd at his Studio One record studio. Mittoo, with the help of drummer Lloyd Knibbs, turned the traditional ska beat into reggae, slowing the rhythm down in the process. Bob Marley, who popularized reggae worldwide, also recorded rocksteady records early in his career. By the late 1960s reggae was already getting radio play in the UK on John Peel's radio show.
It is thought that the word "Reggae" was first used by the Ska group Toots and the Maytals, who coined the phrase in the title of their hit Do the Reggay in 1968. Other stories claim that the term came from the word "streggae", a slang jamaican term for a prostitute, or that it originated from the term Regga which was a bantu speaking tribe from lake tanganyika.
go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae
hope that helps!
2006-08-07 04:28:39 · answer #2 · answered by harps21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by no means is marley the first, being a marley fan and just finished reading before the legend marley was more into ska not reggae peter tosh was doing it before robert and tosh was also an original member of the wailers.
2006-08-07 04:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by nappynap70 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The first real reggae artist could be argued to be Larry Marshall or the Beltones.
2016-03-27 02:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download the song
Reggae Woman
by Stevie Wonder
2006-08-07 16:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the music style is native to the island.
2006-08-07 04:17:23 · answer #6 · answered by jkahwaty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know who was the first one, but he was the first one to put Jamaica on the map.
2006-08-07 04:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by uchaboo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not · but he was the first one
who was very successful ...
You can also ask for Peter Tosh...
2006-08-07 04:19:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but he did a lot to popularize it worlwide.
See the link for the history.
2006-08-07 04:18:35 · answer #9 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he wasn't but he was the best! Ya tink mon?
2006-08-07 04:19:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋