by Howard Campbell
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Basic R&B involves Jamaica in August within the type of Love & Togetherness, a present that includes Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics. The invoice is accomplished by reggae singers Kashief Lindo, Wayne Wade, Richie Stephens and Heather Cummings-Williams.
Love & Togetherness takes place right here August 17 at Hope Botanical Gardens. It’s promoted by Sugarcane Productions and Boundbrook Wines.
Charles Simms, spokesperson for the promoters, mentioned reveals mixing American R&B and homegrown reggae have all the time been winners. He expects longtime followers of Russell Thompkins Jr., unique singer of The Stylistics, to indicate up of their numbers.
“I’ve all the time favored their music, I like what they stand for. I believe they’re a very good group,” he mentioned.
Thompkins Jr. left The Stylistics in 2000 and after a quick break from the music scene, began The New Stylistics, which is energetic all through the USA. He sang lead on many of the Philadelphia-reared group’s hit songs, together with Betcha By Golly Wow, Folks Make The World go Spherical, Cease, Look, Hearken to Your Coronary heart and Break as much as Make Up.
Most of their hits from the early Nineteen Seventies had been produced, written or co-written by Jamaican Thom Bell.
Wade (Love You Too A lot) and Lindo (No Can Do) recorded hit singles for producer Willie Lindo’s South Florida-based Heavy Beat Information throughout the Eighties and Nineties. Their songs from that label proceed to resonate with dancehall followers.
Stephens is among the most enduring artists in dancehall-reggae. Maniac, Battle Again, Attempting to Get to You and Sail Away are a few of his in style songs.
