American reggae band SOJA took home the Grammy for best reggae album at the 64th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, and the internet is not happy about it. The Virginia-based band won the award for their ...
Although reggae has become larger, the genre is still largely pigeonholed to the image of Bob Marley. In a lot of ways, Bob Marley is more well known than the reggae genre itself. The style has so ...
If contemporary reggae with a forthright social conscience has a chance of impacting mainstream radio, SOJA is likely the band to accomplish that feat. By Patricia Meschino “I wanted to be Bob Marley ...
Most Jamaicans reacted with anger and disdain at news that SOJA, a predominantly all-white reggae band, had won this year’s Reggae Grammy with their album, ‘Beauty in the Silence’. However, one ...
When you think reggae, what do you think of? Bob Marley, right? But where else does your mind go? Probably not to Virginia or, really, anywhere in America. When you think reggae, you think of Jamaica, ...
Dancehall artist Spice took to Twitter to console disappointed fans after she, Sean Paul and other Jamaican musicians lost in the Best Reggae Album category to a white band from Virginia—named SOJA ...
The third time was indeed the charm for Virginia-based group SOJA who copped the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with their project Beauty in the Silence at the 64th annual Grammy Awards in Las ...
When SOJA’s Jacob Hemphill checks in via Skype from band practice in sun-kissed Costa Rica, you get the sense that he’s made it. The frontman for the local reggae band doesn’t go to rehearsals — he ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American reggae band SOJA took home the Grammy for best reggae album at the 64th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, and the internet ...