Yami Bolo was weaned on roots music as a youth in Kingston, Jamaica. The positive message of acts like Augustus Pablo and Junior Delgado inspired the songs he made as an artist.<\/p>\n
Uplifting songs dominate \u2018Jah Love Will Rule the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his 2021 album, which the veteran singer continues to promote for his Yam Euphony Music Inc. company. \u201cWi hearing too many negative songs, a lotta songs about guns and harming people. Di youths in Jamaica need to hear these songs of upliftment \u2018cause dat\u2019s what\u2019s going to free dem minds,\u201d said Bolo.<\/p>\n \u2018Jah Love Will Rule the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was released in April. It contains message-strong songs like the title, \u2018Shedding of Blood\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018I\u2019m Making my Life\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>and \u2018Campaign Genocide\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Based in New York City, Yami Bolo keeps in touch with current affairs in Jamaica where he last visited in 2018. The violence there, he stressed, is frightening. \u201cDat\u2019s one of di reasons wi have to feed di youths with good music. Singing \u2018bout guns can\u2019t help anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Last year, Yami Bolo and Capleton collaborated on \u2018Chosen People\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, an anti-crime song that preceded \u2018Jah Love Will Rule the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. They had a big hit with \u2018Put Down Yuh Weapon\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, another peace song, in 1997.<\/p>\n Yami Bolo had his first hit song in 1985 with the dancehall classic, \u2018When A Man is in Love\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>on the Stalalag \u2018riddim\u2019. A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Sugar Minott, his music took on a more rootsy sound late that decade when he began recording and touring with dub visionary and producer Augustus Pablo, singer Junior Delgado and guitarist Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yami Bolo was weaned on roots music as a youth in Kingston, Jamaica. The positive message of acts like Augustus Pablo and Junior Delgado inspired the songs he made as an artist. Uplifting songs dominate \u2018Jah Love Will Rule the World\u2019, his 2021 album, which the veteran singer continues to promote for his Yam Euphony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}