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Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

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Reggae family group formed in Brooklyn in 1979 by four of Bob and Rita Marley's children -- Ziggy, Stephen, Cedella and Sharon Marley -- who first recorded the Bob Marley-composed 'Children Playing in the Streets'. The group's Conscious Party (1988), One Bright Day (1989) and Fallen Is Babylon (1997) each won a Grammy Award, carrying the Marley name into a new generation of reggae.

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Story · Well supportedWomen behind the boards and the business

Producers, executives and one dancer whose stand-off with a promoter opened a stage to Rastafarian drumming -- the women who ran the business side of Jamaican music.

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