03 Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down The Pace. In his teens, Isaacs became a veteran of the talent contests that regularly. Gregory rose to international fame in the late 1970s.

вЂњNight NurseвЂќ hit the charts just after Bob Marley died of cancer, and many reggae writers, obsessed with the impossible question of who would replace Marley as reggaeвЂ™s international ambassador, pointed to Isaacs as the rightful ruler to MarleyвЂ™s empty throne. Starting out in the wild-west days of Jamaican record-making, where little respect was paid to the concept of copyrights and the same album could be released under different names in different countries, Isaacs has been credited with releasing more that 500 albums in Jamaica, England and the United States.Issacs worked extensively with dub legends Lee вЂњScratchвЂќ Perry and King Tubby, but the вЂњlovers rockвЂќ style of music is where Isaacs made his legend. A List of 1,804 songs you should try to listen to before you die.Bob Marley may have been more popular, and Burning Spear may have been more true to the roots, but no reggae legend has ever been cooler than Issac, who penned his classic song вЂњNight NurseвЂќ in 1982.

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