Trojan Jamaica releases compilation with legends reinterpreting blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll! Listen!

The Trojan Jamaica label already has its first release: the compilation Red, Gold, Green & Blue. It is a historic collection of great Jamaican artists performing, in their own way, blues, R&B and early rock’n’roll classics that inspired the reggae revolution of the late 1960s. The conceptual adventure of the duo Zak Starkey and Sharna Liguz - who perform artistically as SSHH - became a label and now a compilation that brings together icons of Jamaican music from all eras. The album was produced by Youth (U2, Paul McCartney) at Trojan Jamaica Studios in Ocho Rios. The compilation brings together diverse styles such as ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub, and is available in all music stores and streaming services. The Trojan Jamaica label arrives to explore Jamaica’s diverse musical legacy, from its African roots to the endless inspirations that came from Black North American music such as soul music, R&B and blues. With that goal in mind, its first release, the compilation Red, Gold, Green & Blue, brings together stars such as Toots & The Maytals, Big Youth, Mykal Rose and Andrew Tosh, taking on timeless songs by names such as Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Fleetwood Mac and others. Record company BMG signed a worldwide contract with this new label, which will bring music currently produced in Jamaica. BMG is co-founder of Trojan Jamaica and therefore licensed the name of the famous Trojan Records label, which is also part of its catalog and was the inspiration for this new venture. While some of the artists overlap with the Trojan Records catalog, Trojan Jamaica is a fully independent frontline brand. The history of Trojan Jamaica began in 2016, when Starkey, son of former Beatle Ringo Starr and known for his work as drummer for The Who, Oasis and many other groups, and Australian artist and producer Sharna “Sshh” Liguz joined forces in the project SSHH to reinvent Bob Marley and Peter Tosh’s hit “Get Up Stand Up” alongside Eddie Vedder with Carlton “Santa” Davis, Goerge “Full” Fullwood and Tony Chin, the latter three members of Jamaican band Soul Syndicate, active from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. A video of that performance reached Jamaican entrepreneur Kingsley Cooper, who invited SSHH to perform at the opening of the Peter Tosh Museum in Kingston in November 2016. The duo was then inspired to work on what would soon be called Trojan Jamaica.