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
Balford Lindsay	Something Good Is Going On	Memories of Her Love	03:02
Glen Ricketts	Rise Up	Rise Up	04:40
Mojah (Lloyd Timmothy Benn)	When Tribes Meet	Broken Arrow	01:26
Clive Clerk (Clive Wilson)	Suzanne	Lookin’ for a Girl b/w Suzanne	02:52
Roots Radics	Two Time Dub	Roots Dub Style	03:38
Afro-Caribbean Singers	Hol' Him Joe	Sun Spirit and Soul	02:23
Naya Ali	Addis Kids - Interlude	We Did The Damn Thing	00:20
Peter Sandy	The Truth	Sweet Music	04:02
Roots Earth And Water	Johnny Osborne, E.R.W. - Jah Jah Live Forever (E. Osbourne, L. Blackwood)	Jah Jah Live Forever // Let Us Give Praise (with Johnny Osborne & Silvertones)	06:24
Patrick Roots	Jah My Keeper	Jah My Keeper // Jah My Keeper	03:40
R. Jackson Zee	Seat Up	Unda De Struggle	04:42
Penny Johnson	Kiss and Say Goodbye	Easy Loving b/w Kiss and Say Goodbye	05:38
Winston Hart	Hi Hello	Genuine Love	05:35
Phase IV	Hard Luck Man	Hard Luck Man // Redemption Song	03:24
Garnet Challenger & The Connection Band	Love Strikes	It's a Revelation	04:05
Winston Hewitt	Stop Knocking on My Door	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:00
Afro-Caribbean Singers	Jamaica Farewell	Sun Spirit and Soul	03:18
Wesli	Tifi a Leve	Tradisyon	04:13
Maame Felicia Konadu	Maamee	Ma Menka	08:03
Leroy Brown	Face to Face	Face To Face	06:07
Wesli	Morisdézo (feat Vox Sambou)	Rapadou Kreyôl	04:19
Ishan People	Your Money Or Your Life	Roots	05:29
Jackie Mittoo	Darker Shades	Show Case Volume 3	03:53
Jackie Mittoo	Kind Girl	Jackie Mittoo and Winston Wright Plays Hits from Studio One and More - A Tribute, Vol. 2	02:28
Ivan Burgess	I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:15
Glen Ricketts	Turning in My Love	Rise Up	05:06
Jackie Mittoo	Western Piper	Wild Jockey	03:54
Gayap Rhythm Drummers	Fantasy World	The Challenge	03:03
Glen Ricketts	Ghetto Man	Rock Me Baby	03:07
Cougars	El Que - Merengue	Caribana '67 Volume 1	03:11
Milton Douglas	Can't Trust No One (Version)	Can't Trust No One	04:16
Villains	Urban Skins	Life of Crime	03:19
Noel Ellis	Stop Your Fighting	ST	06:27
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part One)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:52
Howie Smart	Chu Wa Wa	Meets King Culture in Dancehall Style	03:39
Jackie Mittoo	Henry the Great	Macka Fat	03:19
Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock)	Every Time You Go Away	You Are My Lady	06:19
Karamchand Maharaj	Koi Na Jaane	Innovations 4	04:25
Super 8 Corporation	Rasta Version	What Rasta Say (Pluggy Satchmo)	03:42
Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock)	Soul Trek	You Are My Lady	04:15
George Banton	Uptight Good Woman (vocal)	The Soul of Toronto	03:03
Villains	Life of Crime	Life of Crime	02:37
Fat Chants	People's Food Song	People's Food Song b/w When the Rivers are Hot	03:03
Milton Douglas	Can't Trust No One	Can't Trust No One	04:19
Michael Ratherford	Hard Drugs (Version)	Hard Drugs	03:54
Carl Harvey	Just Having Fun (instrumental)	Just Having Fun	05:51
Tropical All Stars	Invitation	Piper Son b/w Invitation	02:36
Truths & Rights	Acid Rain	Time For Us To Unite	04:05
Bedouin Soundclash	Mountain Top	Light the Horizon	03:16
Jackie Mittoo	Disco Jack	Hot Blood	03:11
Phase IV	Hard Luck Dub	Hard Luck Man // Redemption Song	03:17
Messenjah	Summer in the Winter	Cool Operator	04:16
Bennett Jo	Me and You	Groovy Joe (with Mudies All Stars)	02:24
Glen Ricketts	Rock Me Baby	Rock Me Baby	03:43
Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock)	Let's Stay Together	You Are My Lady	04:37
ShowDoMan	BIlly (Part 2)	Trouble, Trouble	05:17
Wesli	Pran Pasyans	Rapadou Kreyôl	04:50
Winston Hewitt	High School Dance	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:04
Otis Gayle	What You Won't Do for Love	The Best Of	02:54
Confrontation	Misty Love	A New Day	04:06
Leroy Brown	Time of Decision	Color Barrier	02:44
Leroy Sibbles	Evidence (Dread, Dread)	Evidence	05:27
Afro-Caribbean Singers	Medley: Tie Me Donkey Down De, Bo Bo Let Me Go, Si Si Moriah	Sun Spirit and Soul	04:44
Gemini Brass	Her Majesty	Keep on the Right Side	05:10
Tyrone Weekes	Cherie Amour	Another Sunny Morning: Canadian Folk Tunes with a Caribbean Flavour	02:42
Wesli	Lumanjayé	Rapadou Kreyôl	02:21
Leroy Sibbles	Only With You	On Top	02:34
Chalawa	Got You On My Mind	Capture Land (re-issue)	04:03
Balford Lindsay	Can't Fight Love	Can't Fight Love	03:55
Carol Brown	Come Love Me (Cause I Need Love)	Come Love Me (Cause I Need Love)	05:11
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Leroy Sibbles	Brighter Day	It's Not Over	03:38
Jackie Mittoo	Alone Again, Naturally	Reggae Magic	02:54
Otis Gayle	God You are for Real	Love is a Thing	03:59
Truths & Rights	Nuclear	Time For Us To Unite	04:35
Jackie Mittoo	Casa Nova	The Money Makers	03:29
Tarig Abubakar & The Afro-Nubians	Light of Peace	Hobey Laik	04:01
Otis Gayle	Ska	The Best Of	03:25
‎Calvin Benjamin	My Baby's Gone	Dear Jah b/w My Baby's Gone	05:16
Johnny Osbourne	Love Comes & Goes	Meets Roots Radics 1980-1981 "Vintage"	02:27
Jackie Mittoo	Out of Exile	Wild Jockey	03:37
Wesli	Île	Ayiti étoile nouvelle	03:56
R. Jackson Zee	Play On	Unda De Struggle	03:13
Ojiji (Rupert "Ojiji" Harvey)	Gerima	The Shadow	04:44
Lillian Allen	Freedom is Azania (South Africa Must Be Free)	Conditions Critical	06:04
R. Jackson Zee	Don't Worry Be Happy	Unda De Struggle	05:25
Wayne McGhie	Thank You Lord for the Music	Let's Fall in Love // Thank You Lord for the Music	03:36
Wesli	Kote Nou Ye	Ayiti étoile nouvelle	04:18
Leroy Sibbles	Come a Come	It's Not Over	03:39
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Leroy Sibbles	Life in the Ghetto	Strictly Roots	07:41
Nana McLean (Claudette)	To Sir With Love	Modern Day Romance	03:42
Winston Hewitt	For You Love: Every Beat of My Heart; What's Your Name; Sweets For My Sweet; If it Don't Work Out	Full of Love	08:30
Leroy Brown	Color Barrier	Color Barrier	03:56
Sid Lovejoy	Fussin And Fighting	Jah Jah Knows	03:04
Cougars	Sixty-Nine	Caribana '67 Volume 1	02:21
Mojah (Lloyd Timmothy Benn)	Mothers & Fathers	Broken Arrow	05:16
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsy	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:53
Pauline Jones and The Gems	It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)	It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)	06:44
Tarig Abubakar & The Afro-Nubians	Tour to Africa	Tour to Africa	04:14

Reggae, Caribbean and African

Tracks

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Fat Chants - People's Food Song b/w When the Rivers are Hot

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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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