Artist: Twinkle Brothers
Genre(s):
Reggae
Other
Discography:
Free Africa
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Praise Jah
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Heart to Heart
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Final Call
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Live at Reggae Sunsplash: Since I Throw the Comb Away
Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Me No You
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Rasta Surface
Year: 1991
Tracks: 8
Live In Warsaw
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Countrymen
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Miss Labba Labba
Year: 1977
Tracks: 11
UnderGround
Year:
Tracks: 10
New songs for Jah
Year:
Tracks: 15
Love
Year:
Tracks: 10
Dub Massacre Part 1-2
Year:
Tracks: 20
Don't Forget Africa
Year:
Tracks: 10
Babylon rise again
Year:
Tracks: 10
It seems as though the Twinkle Brothers have been around since the root of time, or at least the origin of reggae. Led by Norman Grant, the Twinkles began in the early '60s as a trio featuring Grant and his two brothers singing in the slick trio panache similar to that of the Melodians and the Mighty Diamonds. In the early '70s, the group hooked up with the influential manufacturer and transcriber Bunny Lee, a union that produced a number of reggae hits including "We Can Do It Too" and "Miss Laba Laba." In 1975, the Twinkles released their best and near widely known record, Rasta Pon Top, a rasta-infused, roots-heavy demi-masterpiece that included soul and church doctrine vocal stylings inside the deep grooves. Although hard-core reggae audiences were the principal fans of the Twinkle Brothers, Grant and company were systematically releasing chart-topping records. As much as this brought great success to the band, it likewise created a substantial amount of friction, as Grant began visual perception himself more as a solo represent and less as a member of a iII. This culminated in Grant's pursuit of a solo calling as more than of a MOR soul singer. It wasn't an nasty decision by whatever stretch out of the imagination, simply his solo cultivate wasn't nigh as good as what the Twinkles had been doing.
As if relations inside the breathe of the Twinkles weren't labored enough, in a off-the-wall move Grant joined the popular band Inner Circle in 1981 following the death of the group's original lead singer Jacob "Killer" Miller one year in the beginning. It seemed to his brothers that the career of the Twinkle Brothers was becoming secondary. But, as has been the case throughout their calling, the Grant brothers seemed to excel at mending fences, and within no time the Twinkle Brothers were back. Though their records are quite hard to feel (many of them released on their possess Twinkle label), they suffer recorded some challenging music. During the mid-'90s, they traveled to Poland (where apparently their records sell very well) to record with the folk singing Trebunia Family. What sounded like an improbable north in fact yielded a great, though widely unknown record, Twinkle Inna Poland Style. Then again, helping up the extraordinary has get a Twinkle Brothers hallmark.
Harold Budd and Zeitgeist
