This is the first performance from Damian Marley on the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. For the past two years, Junior Gong has been busy promoting Distant Relatives, the 2010 concept album he recorded with influential rapper, Nas. The duo toured the United States and Europe extensively in support of the set, which was well received on both sides of the Atlantic.
The 2012 staging of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival – The Art of Music will be a three-day celebration, which tips off tonight (Thursday, January 26) and ends on Saturday, January 28. The dynamic lyricist appears on Saturday, the event’s closing night, alongside Cee Lo Green, the Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards, Heads of State, master guitarist Earl Klugh and soca artiste Destra.
Recently, Gong told American media that the response to Distant Relatives was so strong that he and Nas are contemplating a follow-up album and a tour of Africa.
Distant Relatives was the first major project undertaken by Junior Gong since his sensational 2005 album, Welcome to Jamrock, which spawned the massive title track and earned the artiste his second Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Junior Gong has successfully bridged the urban sounds of Jamaican dancehall and American hip hop. It is a hybrid that has found favour with thousands of fans in both countries as well as Europe and Asia where
Welcome to Jamrock and its 2001 predecessor, Half-Way Tree, returned solid sales figures.
The Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival is sponsored by The Jamaica Tourist Board, Flow, Iberostar, Half Moon, ScotiaBank, Jewel’s Dunn’s River, CVM TV, Hilton Rose Hall, The Gleaner, Sunset Beach Resort, RIU, Loyal Haylette Management, and many more.
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