Japanese reggae
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Japanese reggae or J-reggae is reggae (ja:レゲエ) music made in Japan by Japanese artists with lyrics in the Japanese language or in English (or often a seamlessly switching back and forth). Japanese reggae is a distinct yet closely related musical genre to J-ska, and falls under the overarching J-pop umbrella genre.
Like the J-Urban genre (to which many J-reggae artists arguably belong), J-reggae is full of collabos; it is not unusual for half the tracks on a given artist or group's album to feature fellow J-reggae or occasionally even J-Urban artists (often two or three guests to a track!).
[edit] Artists
Some of the more notable J-reggae artist (in alphabetical order, with links to info on the artist if possible), include:
- ja:FIRE BALL (レゲエグループ) - electronica reggae group consisting of TRUTHFUL a.k.a. STICKO (DJ), JUN 4 SHOT (DJ), CRISS (vocals), and CHOZEN LEE (DJ) (who occasionally collaborates with other artists with his band-mates) last.fm Artist Page
- ja:HOME GROWN - group consisting of Tanco (bass), Yukky (drums), I-Watch (guitar), Mama-R (keyboards), Shinji Man (percussion), and Kon Ken (vocals / MC)
- ja:Keyco - female singer last.fm Artist Page
- MOOMIN - male singer last.fm Artist Page
- PUSHIM - female singer PUSHIM Official Homepage [ja][Flash] last.fm Artist Page
- ja:RYO the SKYWALKER - male singer last.fm Artist Page
