For over 50 years Black Uhuru (Uhuru is Swahili for “freedom”) has remained one of the most popular recognized prolific reggae bands from Jamaica.

Influences: Stokes cites Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Black Uhuru and John Coltrane. Songwriting: Stokes is the main lyricist, and the band works out the arrangements.

Sly & Robbie have recorded with everyone from Black Uhuru to Bob Dylan. Photo / Supplied Sly Dunbar jokes that he is coming to New Zealand for a holiday. The Jamaican drummer and producer ...

To most outside of St. Petersburg’s Black communities, the Uhuru Movement is probably best known for its most visible political gestures: It regularly runs candidates for city office ...

The former lead singer of the Grammy-award winning group Black Uhuru, Mykal Rose, has collaborated with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s former band, NYC dub specialists Subatomic Sound System and ...

The group also has opened for national touring acts like The Dirty Heads, Passafire and The Movement, as well as reggae well-knowns such as The Skatalites, Black Uhuru and Yellowman.

Michael Rose, the former Black Uhuru vocalist, tones down his delivery for his cut I've never heard him sound so subdued, but it's an interesting approach to the track.

Despite all of Black Uhuru’s change of different singers and musicians they remained successful, with 14 full length albums, seven instrumental dub albums and four live albums they have the ...

For over 50 years Black Uhuru has remained one of the most popular recognized prolific reggae bands from Jamaica.