Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) — Various Artistes was the non-surprising winner in the Best Reggae Album category at the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening.
The 10-track album contains songs from Bob Marley’s grandchildren Skip Marley, son of daughter Cedella and Mystic Marley, daughter of son, Stephen; Best Reggae Album nominee, Shenseea; Kacey Musgraves, winner of the Best Country Song at this year’s awards; Bloody Civilian, Daniel Caesar, Wizkid, Jessie Reyez, Leon Bridges and Farruko.
The album is different from the soundtrack for the biopic Bob Marley:One Love, which was officially released on February 14 last year. Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) — Various Artistes was released on February 16, 2024, via Island Records and Tuff Gong to celebrate the movie.
This represents a back-to-back win for the Marley family as Bob’s son, Julian, and his collaborator, Alex Antaeus,won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album at the 66th annual awards for the album Colors of Royal.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, in a post on Instagram, congratulated the winners.
Take It Easy – Collie Buddz; Party With Me – Vybz Kartel; Never Gets Late Here – Shenseea; Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) – Various Artistes; and Evolution – The Wailers.
FIRST-TIME NOMINEES
Kartel and Shenseea are first-time nominees and were marked present at music’s biggest night. Kartel, who was released from prison in August, was granted a visa from the United States Embassy in Jamaica last Friday, just in time for him and finance, Sidem, to hop on a plane and walk the Grammy red carpet on Sunday.
A fabulous-looking Shenseea, in an interview with AP, named fellow nominee Vybz Kartel as well as Rihanna as two of the persons in the music business who she looks up to. Although she lost out in the Best Reggae Album category for her own album, the night was still a win for Shenseea, who represents on Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) – Various Artistes.
Kartel, who kept fans updated with his Grammy movements, posted, seemingly in response to not taking home the Grammy this year, “I Can’t Lose when I’m with you,” as the caption of a picture with him and Sidem.
He still has much to celebrate, with his newest album, Viking Vybz is King, making its début at number one last Friday on the iTunes Reggae Albums chart. Music marketer, Sean ‘Contractor’ Edwards said that this was a “very big deal”.
“Vybz Kartel is a marketing genius, and everything he does publicly is calculated. He made the right decision to align himself with Joe Bogdanovich as someone with deep pockets and not gun shy in spending it. The launch on his Str8 Vybz and incorporating it in the marketing of his concert was a good business move, and he also named the liquor collection after some of his hit songs such as Fever for Overproof and Electric for the White Rum. His use of social media is also very good as he is seen often socialising with everyone and comes across as him being very down to earth. His decision to drop this 10th anniversary album on the heels of the Grammy Awards showed strategic thinking again. This album not only has songs from the album released 10 years ago but also has seven new tracks.”
This year, Bob Marley would have celebrated his 80th birthday on February 6. A concert, staged by the Government, will be held on that day at Emancipation Park in New Kingston.
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