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Alborosie

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Italian reggae singer and producer born Alberto D'Ascola in Marsala, Sicily in 1977, who fronted the pioneering Italian reggae band Reggae National Tickets from 1992 before relocating to Kingston in the early 2000s; his 2008 solo debut Soul Pirate launched a career built on writing, playing and producing nearly all of his own material as a self-styled "Italian Reggae Ambassador".

Alborosie & The Shengen Clan at Chiemsee Reggae Summer, 2013Tobias Klenze · CC BY 3.0 · Source ↗

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Alborosie — Kingston Town (Official Video)

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Official Alborosie music video from Escape from Babylon to the Kingdom of Zion; discovery-only embed.

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Story · ProbableReggae's European festival circuit

Long before streaming, a ring of summer festivals across Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands turned reggae into one of Europe's most durable live-music economies.

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