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Don't Let It Pass You By by UB40,
From the album "present arms" released 1981.

Present Arms

Don't Let It Pass You By

Bling Bling an original by UB40. 
From the album "Who You Fighting For" released 2005.

Who You Fighting For

Bling Bling

Someone Like You - Adele [DJ BOAT] Reggae Version 2012 - [www Flvto Com]

Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are (Reggae Cover Jimi D)

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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Reggae Cover By Monair B

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Moonwalking on Water (MM Deep Swim Mix)

🌺 By Pacific Frequency
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Wonderful Tonight (Island Reggae Rendition)

Big Mountain, America’s Premier Reggae band, have been very busy this past year traveling the world over and sharing their music with everyone.  In 1994 their hit version of  “Baby I Love Your Way”, helped propel them into the global arena. 
Their combined sales of there singles and albums Wake Up containing the hit “Touch My Light”, their Unity album containing the hit singles “Baby I Love Your Way”, “I Would Find A Way” and “Sweet Sensual Love” and  the Resistance  album  with the hit “Get Together”,  have sold over 35 million units.  It is expected that the bands latest album Perfect Summer and current single “Here Comes The Sun” distributed by VPAL Music, will continue Big Mountain to reach new heights.  
Along with Big Mountain ‘s great success with over 600,000 streams per month on Spotify,  Big Mountain’s mega hit “Baby I Love Your Way”, which was originally released in spring of 1994, has remained for over 20 years as one of the most played songs on FM radio worldwide.  Now with their new album distributed by VPAL Music, Big Mountain is embarking on a extended world tour to support the release of their new single “Here Comes The Sun” written by George Harrison of The Beatles.
The makeup of the band is as diverse as its music.  The name Big Mountain comes from the Big Mountain Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservation in Northeastern Arizona, United States.  The dynamic lead singer Quino (pronounced Keno) changed the name of the band from Shiloh to Big Mountain because Don Henley of the Eagles owned the Trademark to the name Shiloh.  When deciding on a new name for the band, Quino wanted to bring attention to the struggle that the Hopi and Navajo tribes were facing as the Peabody Mining Company of England, lobbied in Washington to have the treaty broken so that the mining company could strip mine coal from the ground these tribes lived on. 
 Coming from Mexican/ Irish decent and raised in a Afro American and Mexican family, Quino is politically conscious and writes lyrics about racial healing, love and peace. Being fluent in Spanish as he is in English, he incorporates Spanish into the band’s live performances and records in both English and in Spanish.  Other band members include Michael Hyde on keyboards (formerly of the Ziggy Marley band),  Paul Kastick from Montego Bay Jamaica on drums, Danny Lopilato on guitar & lead vocal and Mike Ortiz on bass from Southern California.   
Big Mountain is fortunate to have “Baby I Love Your Way” as a crowd pleaser and one of the biggest hit songs of all time. After taking 10 years off of recording with major labels, Big Mountain is back with VPAL Music  to give the world great music.
ARTIST: Big Mountain
TRACK: Here Comes The Sun
ALBUM: Perfect Summer
LABEL: White Sage Ent./VPAL Music
RELEASE DATE: May 27, 2016
 
*Available for purchase WORLDWIDE on ALL digital retailers. Powered by VPAL Music www.vpalmusic.com !


Perfect Summer

Here Comes The Sun

Spotify

Big Mountain "Here Comes The Sun" (Reggae Version)[White Sage Ent./VPAL Music]

Jamaica Soundsystem - Forever Young

Man Next Door Another John Holt classic, covered by UB40. 
From the album "labour of love IV"

Man Next Door

You Could Meet Somebody is a collaboration with the mighty Mighty Diamonds off the Album "UB40 presents the fathers" released in 2002.

You Could Meet Somebody

End Of War an original by UB40. 
From the album "twenty four seven" released 2008.

End Of War

Oh America an original by UB40 sung by "Earl Falconer". 
From the album "Twenty Four Seven" released 2008.

Oh America

 The story of UB40, and how this group of young friends from Birmingham transcended their working-class origins to become the world’s most successful reggae band is not the stuff of fairytales as might be imagined. The group’s led a charmed life in many respects it’s true, but it’s been a long haul since the days they’d meet up in the bars and clubs around Moseley, and some of them had to scrape by on less than £8 a week unemployment benefit. The choice was simple if you’d left school early. You could either work in one of the local factories, like Robin Campbell did, or scuffle along aimlessly whilst waiting for something else to happen.

By the summer of 1978, something else did happen, and the nucleus of UB40 began rehearsing in a local basement. Robin’s younger brother Ali, Earl Falconer, Brian Travers and James Brown all knew each other from Moseley School of Art, whilst Norman Hassan had been a friend of Ali’s since school. Initially, they thought of themselves as a "jazz-dub-reggae" band, but by the time Robin was persuaded to join and they’d recruited Michael Virtue and Astro – who’d learnt his craft with Birmingham sound-system Duke Alloy – the group had already aligned themselves to left-wing political ideals and forged their own identity, separate from the many punk and Two Tone outfits around at that time. The group had nailed their colours to the mast by naming themselves after an unemployment benefit form. Their political convictions hadn’t been gleaned second hand either, but cemented in place whilst attending marches protesting against the National Front, or rallies organised by Rock Against Racism.

By the time Chrissie Hynde invited them to tour with the Pretenders during the summer of 1980 and their debut single "King b/w Food For Thought" had sailed into the UK Top 5, all the essential elements of UB40 were already in place. Their line-up will remain unchanged for almost thirty years, and they will continue playing a mix of original material and inspired choice of reggae covers in a style that’s instantly accessible with its bright melodies and sweeping horn arrangements – one that’s allied to a formidable rhythm section, capable of holding its own with anything from Jamaica.

UB40’s first album was released the following September, on Graduate Records. Their deal allowed them more creative freedom than if they had signed with a major label. The cover artwork memorably duplicated an unemployment benefit card, with the title "Signing Off" rubber-stamped in red, but it was the music that quickly worked its way into the affections of a young, mainly student crowd with its knowing lyrics, solid reggae rhythms and dubby, instrumental passages, offset by warm horn solos and Jamaican style scatting. There was nothing else like it at the time. As a multi-cultural band from Birmingham, UB40 weren’t drawn into trying to sound "authentic," and there was considerably more depth to their music than that of many punk and 2Tone bands. "I’m a British subject, not proud of it, whilst I carry the burden of shame," they sang on one of the tracks. Accepting the truth of their own situation amidst a sea of other reggae songs proclaiming black heritage gave us a valuable insight into where UB40 were coming from. They were unafraid to stand up and be counted, and British audiences instinctively loved them for it. "Signing Off" duly went to No. 2 in the UK and stayed on the nation’s album charts for 72 weeks.

On September 2nd, 2013, UB40 released their latest album ‘Getting Over The Storm’ on Universal/Virgin Records.

End Of War

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