Taj Weekes’s Anthems of Hope Taken from Deeproots   2013 is going to be a big year for St. Lucia’s Taj Weekes. In February he was honored with the St. Lucia House Foundation’s Humanitarian Award, and on April 9 he and his band Adowa will release a new live album, Pariah in Transit, advances of which have already […]

    Good news for reggae music and St. Lucian reggae performer Taj Weekes and his band, Adowa. Weekes’ “Pariah in Transit” album has made the preliminary list of nominations for the Best Reggae Album category in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, according to the musician’s record label, Jatta Records. Five nominees for the Best […]

Taken from Kreol Magazine   Taj Weekes A portrait of Taj Weekes could begin in any of a hundred ways. Musician, songwriter, poet, humanitarian, Rastaman, businessman, parent – all are important roles for him, all are related, and all are instructive about who he really is. But let’s begin in the island of his birth. Yes, St. Lucia can truthfully […]

 Taken from Buzzz Magazine  

Taken from United Reggae by Angus Taylor   “For some years live reggae music from Jamaica has been celebrated. This should be too.”     When the best roots reggae music made on islands outside Jamaica is mentioned, most people’s attention falls on the Virgin Islands: the didactic seminars of Midnite, the broken toned roots-pop of Pressure, the quavering […]

Taken from Reggaemani Ever been to a concert where the horns are played on keyboard and the arrangements and harmonies are nothing like that record you love so much. Well, I have. It’s very disappointing. But I don’t think a concert with St Lucian Taj Weekes and his U.S. backing band Adowa would disappoint me. Not if you […]