Monday, August 06, 2007

Jamaica's Anglican church to modernize hymnals with reggae songs

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/04/news/CB-REL-Jamaica-Reggae-Hymns.php

[International Herald Tribune] 06 Aug 2007--Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh — both devout Rastafarians — will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.

Marley's "One Love" and Tosh's "Psalm 27" will be the first reggae tunes to appear in songbooks alongside traditional worship music on the island that gave birth to reggae, said church leaders preparing a new collection of hymns.

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