Wedding Songs

Reggae Music For Your Wedding

The best wedding is the one that combines different styles of music to please everyone. If you want to have a mixed playlist you can consider including some reggae music. Reggae is a music genre that first developed in Jamaica in the 1960s. The term reggae is used to denote a particular style of music that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.




Reggae music is based on a rhythmic style with accents on the off-beat, known under the name of skank. Reggae is normally slower than ska and rocksteady. Reggae music is like folk or hip-hop. In the 1960′s it represented a social movement powered by socially conscious lyrics and the iconic musicians and songwriters.

Reggae music spread worldwide and reached a mainstream radio play. Reggae songs have peaceful lyrics of love and religion, poverty and injustice. Surely everyone heard about Bob Marley. He was a representative figure for the reggae music. Here you have the most popular reggae songs by several of the most famous artists of the genre:

Amber by 311

Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley

No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley and The Wailers

I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley

Your House by Steel Pulse

What I Got by Sublime

The Harder They Come by Jimmy Cliff

Red Red Wine by UB40

If I Was President by Wyclef Jean

Love is My Religion by Ziggy Marley

Equal Rights by Peter Tosh

Israelites by Desmond Dekker and The Aces

One Love by Bob Marley

Satta Massagana by The Abyssinians

Funky Kingston by Toots and The Maytals

Manny Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff

Here I Come by Dennis Brown

The Tide Is High by The Paragons

Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

Rivers Of Babylon by The Melodians

Cherry Oh Baby by Eric Donaldson

A Love I Can Feel by John Holt

Queen Majesty by The Techniques

Natural Mystic by Bob Marley

Book Of The Rules by The Heptones

Telephone Love by JC Lodge

Ba Ba Boom by The Jamaicans

I’m Still in Love with You by Alton Ellis

Wonderful World, Beautiful People by Jimmy Cliff

Fade Away by Jr. Byles

Soon Forward by Gregory Isaacs

You Can Get It If You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff

Now That We Found Love by The Third World

Talk About Love by Pat Kelly

I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash

What One Dance Can Do by Beres Hammond

Someone Loves You by JC Lodge

Love Me Forever by Carlton and The Shoes

Black Cinderella by Errol Dunkley

My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small

Hold Me Tight by Johnny Mash

Angel by Shaggy

Give A Little Love by Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers

Feel Like Jumping by Marcia Griffiths

Better Must Come by Delroy Wilson

Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths

Rock and Groove by Bunny Wailer

Oh Carolina by Shaggy

Sweet Sensation by The Melodians

Sweet Talking by The Heptones

Things You Say You Love by The Jamaicans

This Is Reggae Music by Zap Pow

Always Together by Bob Andy

Love Forever by Cynthia Schloss

Fire Burning by Bob Andy

Bombastic by Shaggy

Play The Music by Ernie Smith

Rhythm Of Life by Third World

Queen Of The Minstrels by Cornell Campbell

Stop Loving You by Freddie McGregor

Night And Day by Dawn Penn

Ten Commandments by Prince Buster

On The Beach by The Paragons

One Love, One Heart by Righteous Flames
These are some of the most popular reggae tracks that you can use. Nice up your wedding party with reggae music!

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