KINGSTON, Jamaica – As a result of she wore a number of hats, Bridgett Anderson was backwards and forwards from the doorway to stage space for Music Is The Rod, a present celebrating Garnet Silk’s 58th birthday.
The occasion happened right here at Footprints bar on April 3, in the future after the Rastafarian singer’s ‘Earthstrong’. Garnet Silk died in a hearth at his mom’s dwelling in his native Manchester parish, December, 1994.
Because the thirtieth 12 months since his passing approaches, Anderson (Silk’s former supervisor) stated it is very important maintain his legacy alive.
Bridgett Anderson
“The message in Garnet’s music must be maintained as a result of Music is the Rod. These messages of fact and righteousness are meals for the spirit, soul and physique. The works he has completed, the affect made, should be acknowledged by the powers that be. So many have been awarded and haven’t made the contribution this Archangel has made on the world,” she instructed South Florida Caribbean Information.
Music is The Rod is likely one of the many hit songs Silk recorded in a prolific two-year run. Different tracks similar to Zion in A Imaginative and prescient, Hey Mama Africa, Love is The Reply and It’s Rising made him an enormous star.
Together with Tony Insurgent, Yasus Afari and Everton Blender, he was a part of a roots revival in Jamaican music in the course of the early Nineteen Nineties. They have been dedicated Rastafarians out south-central parishes of Clarendon, Manchester and St. Elizabeth.
Garnet Silk
Silk was billed among the many headliners for Sting, the favored December 26 present, with Tony Insurgent, Luciano and Capleton when he died within the blaze at his mom’s home.
At Music Is The Rod, there have been performances from a variety of artists together with his youthful brother Aaron Silk, who did a number of of his well-known sibling’s songs.
Anderson recollects seeing Garnet Silk two days earlier than his demise. She was now not his supervisor however they maintained a cordial relationship.
Along with his songs now not saturating Jamaican airwaves, Silk’s music is in peril of being misplaced to a brand new technology of followers. Anderson has an answer for that.
“I can’t converse out of flip however Garnet’s works ought to be taught to the youth in books, educating the lyrics to kids at an early age to allow them to develop within the information and love of the Most Excessive God of Israel. I really feel privileged to have labored with this ‘jahmazing’ artist, Garnet Damon Smith aka Garnet Silk,” she stated.
