by Howard Campbell
LOS ANGELES – Julian Marley joined his siblings as winner of the Finest Reggae Album Grammy Award when Colours of Royal, his collaboration with Greek artist Antaeus, received that class on February 4 on the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles.
Their Colours of Royal topped Burning Spear’s No Destroyer, Simma by Beenie Man, Born For Greatness by Buju Banton, and Cali Roots Riddim by Collie Buddz.
It’s a becoming win for the London-born Julian whose father is reggae legend Bob Marley. On February 6, his father’s birthday, the biopic Bob Marley: One Love premieres in Los Angeles.
Bob Marley died in Could, 1981 at age 36.
The eight-song Colours of Royal was launched in March. It hears 48 year-old Marley teaming with Alexx Antaeus whose credit embody tasks with The Rolling Stones and Earth, Wind And Hearth.
It was Julian Marley’s third Grammy nomination, following Awake in 2010 and As I Am in 2020.
“This album is all about creative freedom and exploration. We needed to create one thing that was each true to reggae music and likewise pushed the envelope, and I feel we’ve achieved that with Colours of Royal. It’s a journey by means of sound and coloration, and we will’t await individuals to expertise it,” he mentioned shortly after Colours of Royal’s launch.
Initiated in 1985 as Finest Reggae Recording, the Finest Reggae Album class has been dominated by the Marley household. Julian’s older brothers Ziggy and Stephen are a number of winners as solo acts in addition to with the sibling group, Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers.
