Rockers The Movie

Martin Williams (Mr. MARSHALL) was once one of four singers in an early sixties group called The Jamaicans. Their song “Baba Boom” won first prize in the second Jamaican Song Festival.

BIG YOUTH, or Jah Youth, who began life as Manley Augustus Buchanan, is instantly recognizable by the Rasta colors – red, green and gold – inlaid in his front teeth. He is Jamaica’s most famous D.J. song-writer-performer. In the D.J. style the artist sings, talks and scats over an instrumental arrangement. The D.J. style is the precursor to Jamaican Dance Hall as well as Rap and Hip Hop music.

THE ABYSSINIANS sing, in the opening scene, their greatest hit “Satta masagana”, a song which has become the Rasta hymn. They are accompanied by Ras Michael and The Sons of Negus, a band of drummers who perform in the tradition of the Rastafarian “Nyabingi” – a gathring of brethren communing through drum rhythm and chanting.

Lester DILLINGER Bullocks was the successor to U-Roy and Big Youth. In ROCKERS, it is Dillinger’s hit single “Stumbling Block”, that inspires havoc inside Randy’s Record Store as Horsemouth goes there to do business.