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Kwame Heshimu

Band,
Reggae
A.k.a. Synthesis Inc.

Kwame Heshimu grew in the shadow of the Blue Mountain. Son of a Cuban expatriate, and a mother, descendant of Jamaican Maroons, he spent his childhood in one of the most inaccessible communities on the island. His grandfather, a saxophonist with dance bandleader Ray Coburn, frequently accompanied Rastafarian drummers. Kwame not only became enthralled with the music, but with the Rastafarian vocabulary, or Iyaric, an intentionally created dialect of English, reflecting their desire to take forward language and confront Babylon system. His romance with word, sound, and power had begun.

     
Members
PortraitMikey Chung
g, b *1954 JM
PortraitDean Gant
key, syn
PortraitKarl Pitterson
b, dr, g JM
PortraitClarence Burke
voc, acg, bvoc 1949-2013
PortraitSteve Ferrone
dr, perc *1950 GB
PortraitNoel Alphonso
dr
PortraitLee Jaffe
h *1950 US
PortraitJoe Ortiz
g, tim, cng
Winston Gardner
b
PortraitYvonne Wright
bvoc 1951-2016 US
Brenda Madison
bvoc, voc US
PortraitRonald Morris
b
Mikey Ranglin
org, p, dr
Janice Burke
bvoc
Paula Sullivan
bvoc
Balford Breadwood
dr
Nadine Hart
bvoc

Discography

Title Artist Year Type
It's All RightKwame Heshimu1981Album
Follow IKwame Heshimu1980Album
Hell HoundsKwame Heshimu1980Album
It's AllrightKwame Heshimu1979Single
Beast Of BurdenKwame Heshimu1978Single
Being AloneKwame Heshimu1975Single
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