Bob Marley & Peter Tosh Songs included in Anglican Hymnals
Jamaica's Anglican church to modernize hymnals with reggae songs
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.
Church leaders preparing a new collection of hymns say that Marley's "One Love" and Tosh's "Psalm 27" will be the first reggae tunes to appear in songbooks alongside traditional worship music on the island that gave birth to reggae.
Church spokesman Reverend Ernle Gordon said today that members of the Anglican Church of Jamaica were enthusiastic about including the reggae musicians' music in the hymnals, despite their sometimes vocal opposition to Christianity.
Gordon said the musicians may have been anti-church, but they were not anti-God or anti-religion.
He said that including the songs would help modernize Jamaica's hymnals.
Marley and Tosh, who both died in the 1980s after becoming international music stars, practised Rastafarianism, a faith founded by descendants of slaves in response to black oppression.
2 comments:
Praise Him, Praise Him
Jah Ras Tafari, I, I, I
It only takes a spark to get the fyah going! JAH put de spark inna Bob and Peter dem!(Servants of the Omnipotent ONE.) So we hafe carry on de FYAH for dem. No man cyan stop RASTAFARI work. Remember it's ordained. So Truths and Rights can be written in any book and stand strong.
PRAISE BE TO H.I.M.
HAILE I SELASSIE I JAH RASTAFARI!
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