For 30 years AFRICA UNITE have been producing high quality reggae music, this band has released 13 albums, establishing themselves as one of the most prestigious and popular Italian reggae bands.
named after one of Bob Marley’s songs, formed in 1981, the sad year of Bob Marley’s premature death. After many years spreading the reggae word in Italy, with PEOPLE PIE released in 1991, they realised it was time to move into pastures new. To support the album AFRICA UNITE kicked off a series of successful live Italian and European gigs eventually playing in Negril (Jamaica). In 1993 they released a new album BABILONIA E POESIA (Babylon and Poetry), after the success of the colourful and emotive music they embarked on an Italian and European tour playing over one hundred dates; they also performed in Iraq taking part in the Babylon International Festival during the embargo due to the Gulf War.
In the following years, while they produced more and more successful albums, they kept on touring becoming recognized as one of the best live acts on the European Reggae scene. Their fame took them as far as Palestine where they performed at the International Festival in Jerusalem. At that point in their career (1995) the major music industry noticed Africa Unite and they signed a contract with Universal Music. What followed was even more compelling recorded music and live performances and they averaged over 70 gigs a year
After several more studio albums, a live tribute to Bob Marley in 2001 and a couple of live albums in 2005 they joined a brand new live project. They created music with a 25 strings Orchestra, stunningly playing just with vocals and strings. The music was very successful in both recording and live.
In the same year Africa Unite established their own label. They soon created two new albums “CONTROLLI” (2006) and “4 RIDDIMS 4 UNITY” (2007) the sound is based on renovation of their old style, a perfect mixture of Dub & Reggae in an Africa Unite style!
Two more cds came out in 2009 BIOGRAFICA UNITE and it tells the story of their long successful career, with 2 CDs and a DVD documenting the history of the most representative Italian reggae band, and Rootz in 2010 followed by their autobiographical book to celebrate 30 years of music together.
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