Reggae, Caribbean and African

This room celebrates the rich rhythms and vibrant voices of Canada’s Reggae, Caribbean, and African music scenes. From roots reggae and dancehall to calypso, soca, Afrobeat, and traditional African styles, this collection reflects the cultural depth brought by diasporic communities across the country. Whether born abroad or raised in Canada, these artists brought the sound of islands and continents to Canadian streets, shaping a powerful, joyful, and deeply expressive musical legacy. Uplifting, unifying, and undeniably rhythmic.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Desmond Chambers	I Have Seen Love in Your Eyes	The Morning Show b/w I Have Seen Love in Your Eyes	04:02
Messenjah	Memories	Rock You High	03:19
Glen Ricketts	Baby I'm for Real	Rise Up	05:05
Pierre Kwenders (José Louis Modabi)	Ego (Lazy Flow remix)	Classe Tendresse (with Clément Bazin)	04:14
Karamchand Maharaj	Jhoothi Jagdi Preet	Innovations 4	05:17
Naya Ali	Addis Kids - Interlude	We Did The Damn Thing	00:20
Bedouin Soundclash	Rolling Stone	Light the Horizon	03:22
Nana McLean (Claudette)	Salty Tears	Dream Of Life	03:22
Howie Smart	Yes Yes	Rock & Come In	03:39
Webber Sisters (Merlene and Cynthia)	You Light My Fire	Sweet Soul And Inspiration	02:56
Demo Cates	Just the Two of Us	Lady	03:27
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Phase IV	Redemption Song	Hard Luck Man // Redemption Song	06:43
Jackie Mittoo	Ghetto Organ	Macka Fat	04:02
Truths & Rights	Acid Rain (Dub)	Time For Us To Unite	05:39
Roots Radics	Listen Dub	Roots Dub Style	02:57
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Snapshot	03:09
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	02:23
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Just You and Me	04:33
Wesli	Samba (Hommage à Azor Rasin Mapou)	Tradisyon	06:03
Customers	International Relations	ST (EP)	02:03
Jackie Mittoo	Ska Revival	Wild Jockey	03:18
Lillian Allen	Freedom is Azania (South Africa Must Be Free)	Conditions Critical	06:04
Leroy Brown	Prayer of Peace	Leroy Brown & His Defence Force - Prayer Of Peace	02:58
Winston Hart	Honour Your Mother and Father	Genuine Love	05:11
Ivan Burgess	I Wish I Was a Red Rosy Bush	Wanderin' With	02:08
Pluggy Satchmo	Porridge	Porridge	04:53
Otis Gayle	Voyage to Atlantis	Love is a Thing	03:51
Leroy Sibbles	Jah Soon Come	Strictly Roots	04:40
Merlene Webber	The First Cut is the Deepest	On The Right Track (featuring Webber Sisters)	03:02
Naya Ali	Turning Tables	We Did The Damn Thing	03:19
Pierre Kwenders (José Louis Modabi)	Ani Kuni	Le Dernier Empereur Bantou	03:39
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Jackie Mittoo	Bathurst Street Yank	The Money Makers	02:56
Cougars	El Que - Merengue	Caribana '67 Volume 1	03:11
Mighty Mystics	Arms	Ride Your Donkey b/w Arms	09:32
One Love	Roller Coaster	ST	06:26
Leroy Sibbles	Let Jah Music Ride	On Top	03:21
Jackie Mittoo	Chasing You Forever	Jackie Mittoo and Winston Wright Plays Hits from Studio One and More - A Tribute, Vol. 2	02:39
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Stranger Cole	Every Nation	More Life EP (with The Steadytones)	04:25
Clive Clerk (Clive Wilson)	Look Before You Leap	Look Before You Leap b/w Love You Baby	02:12
R. Jackson Zee	Be With a Dread	Trodding	03:34
Howie Smart	Too Jumpy	Rock & Come In	05:23
Messenjah	Keep On Pushing	Cool... But Deadly	03:45
Stranger Cole	Yesterday’s Dream	Storybook Revisited	02:37
Lorenzo Conyers	You Gotta Have Love	With Love From Lorenzo	04:47
Carl Harvey	Break Outs	Ecstacy of Mankind	04:10
Naya Ali	Life	We Did The Damn Thing	03:28
Messenjah	Shagnatty Dread	Rock You High	03:37
Wesli	Blackman Samba	Blackman Samba	03:16
George Banton	I'm Still In Love With You	I'm Still In Love With You	04:52
Naya Ali	Freedom Creepin' (feat. Dominique Fils-Aimé)	We Did The Damn Thing	02:49
Christine White Joy	Lose A Good Thing	You Have Got To Come Back	03:00
Syren	Love Come Thru	The One	04:31
Otis Gayle	Love is a Thing	Love is a Thing	03:58
Penny Johnson	Easy Loving	Easy Loving b/w Kiss and Say Goodbye	03:41
Pluggy Satchmo	Blueberry Hill	Porridge	04:08
Pierre Kwenders (José Louis Modabi)	Kilimanjaro	Jose Louis And The Paradox Of Love	02:46
ShowDoMan	Trouble Trouble	Trouble, Trouble	05:13
Leroy Sibbles	Let Music	Evidence	04:57
Garnet Challenger & The Connection Band	Cold War	It's a Revelation	03:50
Clive Clerk (Clive Wilson)	Suzanne	Lookin’ for a Girl b/w Suzanne	02:52
Pierre Kwenders (José Louis Modabi)	Endless Night	Tears On The Dancefloor	03:34
Compilation	Sam T - Magye Me Girl	D.J. Oduro & Emmanuel Presents... Toronto Heat Volume 1	05:48
Lorenzo Conyers	That Old Vo-do-do-de-o-do	With Love From Lorenzo	02:12
Pluggy Satchmo	Anthony Hibbert & Black Gold - Della Dub	Dance Hall Style (with Norma King)	03:32
Ernie* Smith	Oh But If I	Skareggae	03:25
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Jackie Mittoo	Lazy Bones	Macka Fat	04:27
Super 8 Corporation	Black Society	Black Society (Bongo Ossie and The Moonlights)	02:48
Ezra Kwizera	Wera Urera	Himbaza Uwera	04:46
Otis Gayle	What You Wont Do for Love (Instrumental Version)	The Best Of	02:54
Carol Brown	Come Love Me (Cause I Need Love)	Come Love Me (Cause I Need Love)	05:11
Julie Spence	Sad Movies	Arrives	06:05
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Winston Hewitt	Tell the Devil	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:38
Samuel Mickle	Slave Man	Slave Man	05:19
Christine White Joy	Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me	You Have Got To Come Back	05:56
Webber Sisters (Merlene and Cynthia)	One Man Woman	Sweet Soul And Inspiration	03:19
A.P.M.S. (Alfred Paul Mama Sçhall)	Keep On Skanking	In Perspective	05:21
Tyrone Weekes	My Only Island	Another Sunny Morning: Canadian Folk Tunes with a Caribbean Flavour	03:07
Jackie Mittoo	Casa Nova	The Money Makers	03:29
Jackie Mittoo	Special Mission	Stepping Tiger	04:05
Leroy Gibbon	I Don't Want to be Alone	Just Like That	03:08
Winston Hewitt	Jane (I'm Not the Same)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:27
Mojah (Lloyd Timmothy Benn)	Don't Walk On By	Broken Arrow	04:01
Jackie Mittoo	Creative Rock	The Keyboard King	02:46
Wesli	Le Soleil Descend Feat Paul Cargnello	Tradisyon	04:08
Winston Hewitt	I Love You More Than I Can Say	Full of Love	04:04
Wesli	3 Fèy	Ayiti étoile nouvelle	04:13
Roots Radics	Two Time Dub	Roots Dub Style	03:38
Sid Lovejoy	King Kong Man	King Kong Man b/w King Kong Man Version	03:57
Lillian Allen	His Day Came	Conditions Critical	05:33
R. Jackson Zee	Please Tell Me	Trodding	03:54
Pierre Kwenders (José Louis Modabi)	Merci, Beaucoup!	Tears On The Dancefloor	00:24
Ishan People	No Ganja	Roots	03:21
Garnet Challenger & The Connection Band	Narrow Road	It's a Revelation	03:05
Jackie Mittoo	Too Late to Turn Back Now	Reggae Magic	03:42
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	03:48

Reggae, Caribbean and African

Tracks

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Clive Clerk (Clive Wilson) - Look Before You Leap b/w Love You Baby

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Clive Clerk (Clive Wilson) - Lookin’ for a Girl b/w Suzanne

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Jackie Mittoo - Show Case Volume 3

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Lascelles Douglas - Created for a Reason b/w Na Lose This Battle

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Karamchand Maharaj - Innovations 4

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Milton Douglas - Can't Trust No One

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Desmond Chambers - Tiger Bom

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Stranger Cole - Storybook Revisited

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Stranger Cole - More Life EP (with The Steadytones)

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Stranger Cole - Bread in the Oven (& The Collinder Sisters)

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Stranger Cole - The First Ten Years (with The Callander Sisters and Chalawa)

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Stranger Cole - "Forward" in the Land of Sunshine

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Stranger Cole - The Patriot

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Stranger Cole - Capture Land

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Carl Harvey - Just Having Fun

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Carl Harvey - Ecstacy of Mankind

Carl Harvey - Ebony Lady

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Cougars - Caribana '67 Volume 1

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Arawak - Music in the Making b/w New Day

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Ishan People - Roots

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Ishan People - ST

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Soul Explosion Band - Out of Many One People

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Mighty Mystics - Ride Your Donkey b/w Arms

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David Thiaw - African Skies

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Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock) - You Are My Lady

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Demo Cates - Lady

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Demo Cates - Stealing Love

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Jackie Mittoo - Love of life b/w Love Life

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Johnny Osborne & Jerry Estivon All Stars - Who Really Cares

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Jackie Mittoo - Let's Put It all Together

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