Peter Broggs
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Peter Broggs (born 1954 in Hanover Parish, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is a successful artist in Jamaica and well-known in the international reggae scenes.
Broggs suffered a stroke on August 27, 2004, and since then he is almost unable to move his right body half and can hardly speak. His rehabilitation progress is very slow. After his stroke the album Igzabihir Yakal was released in 2005; the album has been recorded with Dubcreator at the DC Studio for sound system team King Shiloh in Amsterdam in 2002 and the profit from this album went to Broggs for the help of paying his medical bills.
[edit] Discography
- Progressive Youth (1979)
- Rastafari Liveth (1981)
- Rise And Shine (1982)
- Cease The War (1984)
- Reasoning (1986)
- Reggae In Blues (1993)
- Peter Broggs Sings For The Children (1993)
- Rejoice (1997)
- Progressive Youth (Reissue) (1997)
- RAS Portraits: Peter Broggs (1997)
- Jah Golden Throne (2000)
- Jah Golden Throne Dubwise (2000)
- Never Forget Jah (2001)
- Igzabihir Yakal (2005)
[edit] Miscellanea
- Floater (band) from Portland, Oregon performs the song "Leggo Me Hand" during their live shows in a medley with their song "Medicine Woman" from their 1998 concept album Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone