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My girlfriend is half Jamaican, and spent a lot of time there growing up. She said her and her family used to listen to a reggae album which was lots of covers of Christmas songs, but none of them can find it.

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I have collected over 500 Reggae Christmas songs over the years and all can be found on my Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/rastaclaus85. Scroll through for my picks for the Top 10 Reggae Christmas Songs:

To a white boy and unreconstructed pop fan such as myself, reggae music can present a challenge. Jamaicans singing about the Jamaican experience in an unintelligible patois over endless dub beats, can sound, well, foreign. Perhaps that's why reggae cover versions of well-known pop songs have always been popular in England and America, and it may also explain why Natty And Nice: A Reggae Christmas (Rhino, 1998) sounds so familiar and friendly to my ears. Beginning with Granville Williams' rudimentary-but-infectious "Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town" (1964), we are treated to a variety of original songs and inspired covers surveying over 25 years of Jamaican music. Natty And Nice takes us from the innocent days of ska (an upbeat precursor of reggae) all the way to the latter days of hip-hop-influenced dancehall. Unlike much "rebel music," however, the groove stays positive and musically light throughout - Santa doesn't visit rude boys, you know.

Star turns by the likes of Toots Hibbert and Lee Perry are unsurprisingly wonderful, and lesser-known songs like Washington & Clarke's "Happy Christmas" also shine. As with reggae in general, I enjoy the older cuts on Natty And Nice more than the recent ones; by the 80's, better production values and outside influences had forever altered reggae's rustic charm.

Special kudos, however, to John Holt's 1986 rendition of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." This song is seldom covered - perhaps artists are intimidated by Lennon's reputation - but Holt does a wonderful version simply by laying down a solid groove and allowing the song to speak for itself. The same could be said for nearly all good reggae music, and it's a theme that runs consistently through Natty And Nice. [top of page]

As we head into the holiday season, it's time to dust off my Christmas CDs and look for new ones. (I have to admit that I think the Jackson 5 Christmas album is one of the all time best.)What are your reggae Christmas favorites?Here's a Toni Braxton Shaggy song "Christmas in Jamaica" =WOgvh8_N2zI&feature=relatedAnd Beres Hammond: =79tQtuiHhtE&feature=relatedOne of my favorite reggae CDs is from VP Records, "The Christmas Album" featuring your favorites sung by Sanchez, Beres Hammond, Mickey Spice, Dean Fraser and others.Here's Freddie McGregor from that CD: =ouh9TKtKskgAnd Dean Fraser from the same CD: =gMxN2GKOLI0

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Chart-topping Reggae pioneers CHRISTAFARI have released their latest studio album, Reggae Christmas 2: Reason for the Season (Lion of Zion Entertainment). The 16-track album features gust appearances by Michael Tait (Newsboys / dcTalk), Papa San, DJ Nicholas, Ben Calhoun (Citizen Way) and many more. The first volume, released in 2013, landed at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart -- the first holiday album to do so. Purchase or stream Reggae Christmas 2 here.

"There is something that is already joyful and spirit filled about reggae," says CHRISTAFARI's Mark Mohr. "And when you blend it with Christmas music, you get the perfect combination of upbeat songs that can uplift your spirit."

Recorded during a global pandemic, Reggae Christmas 2 was a group effort between the Los Angeles-based group and their guitarist Taimes, who initially wrote and produced the majority of music for the album while quarantined in So Paulo, Brazil.

"Recording this album was therapeutic," says Mohr. "We began it over a year ago, but didn't really kick into high gear until we were at least five months into the COVID-19 crisis. At that time, about the only activity that I could do on a daily basis that wasn't forbidden by the mayor of Los Angeles was go to the beach with my family. So every single day we would listen to Christmas carols while driving to the beach and while surfing each afternoon at sunset in the warmth of the sun's amber glow. I wrote around 14 songs in 14 days. It was such a prolific time in my life. God really used the lyrics of these songs and many of the original carols that inspired them not just to bring joy to the world, but to bring joy to my soul that was pretty downcast amidst the quarantine. It's been a challenging year for us, we set out to minister in 30 countries and only were able to minister in three countries and four states. So writing and recording Christmas songs was just what the doctor ordered. It brought me out of a funk and we believe that these tidings of comfort and joy will do the same for every single listener."

CHRISTAFARI is giving back with this new project in a unique way. All the proceeds from the track, "Do They Know It's Christmas," will go towards Tunedem -- a non-profit organization that the band has helped set up in Kenya. Tunedem is built around people that have come out of the ghetto and have set out to help those that are still stuck in the slums. The goal, as relayed in the song's music video, is to encourage those in the western world to help make a difference and feed the poorest of the poor in the largest slum in Africa this Christmas. With COVID-19 devastating countries that were already on the brink, the ones that are hit the hardest are the refugees in tenement yards such as Kibera (the largest slum in Africa). CHRISTAFARI's goal and mission is to feed as many families as possible during the holidays through this song. You can learn more or donate at tunedem.org.

CHRISTAFARI has released multiple new music videos for the new album, available on their official YouTube channel which receives 2 million views monthly and growing.

A Very Cool Christmas is a wonderful collection of all that Christmas has to offer, from the brilliant harmonies of The Temptations and the folk-rock of Leon Russell to the Beatpop of The Kinks and the soul voice from Marvin Gaye. This versatile record consists of both well-known Christmas songs performed by other artists than the famous versions and originals from the '50s until the present.

A Very Cool Christmas 1 is a wonderful collection of all the great music that Christmas has to offer, from the brilliant harmonies of The Temptations and the folk rock of Leon Russell to the Beat pop of The Kinks and the soul voice of Marvin Gaye. This versatile record consists of both originals from the '50s until the present and well-known covers of classic Christmas songs. Christmas hits by The Darkness, Darlene Love, and Otis Redding are all part of this 2LP record. So let's make this a very cool and enjoyable Christmas.

From the very first notes of "In the Bleak Mid-Winter," summoned gently from a piano by producer/pianist/co-arranger Doug Petty, it's unthinkingly obvious that this collection of traditional songs is a thing of beauty. Before that, even. The cover, the insert, and the case art of the CD are wonderfully illustrated by Maurice Sendak (who's responsible for Where the Wild Things Are), full of grainy and ancient-feeling images of children watching the skies and sleepwalking in nightshirts. The album evokes familial bliss to be sure, made more poignant as the project is dedicated to Caledonia, Colvin's new baby daughter. "Christmas Time Is Here" is stirring, a more sparse arrangement than the other tunes, leaving Colvin's clear and wispy vocals to fill the echoing space. There's "Silent Night" and "Little Road to Bethlehem," convincingly inspired by the holiday spirit they celebrate. "Windy Nights" sets the words of Robert Louis Stevenson to the familiar-feeling, traditionally rendered music of Alec Wilder, while "Seal Lullaby" does the same with passages from Kipling's The Jungle Book. While this CD definitely carries the feelings and the signs of the Christmas season, don't be surprised when you find yourself listening to it and enjoying it repeatedly come summertime.

Surprisingly enough, a decade and a half hasn't dulled the pre-Spice Girl, coming-of-age feminist charm of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," the song that unleashed Cyndi Lauper (as well as Captain Lou Albano) on an unsuspecting nation of MTV tune-ins and prisoners of Top 40 radio. Frigging "She Bop" still gets a rise out of some, and maybe, just maybe "True Colors" deserved a better fate than becoming a Kodak commercial (then again ... ). Twelve Deadly Cyns, Lauper's greatest hits collection from several years back, even proved she was four or five hits up on Katrina & the Waves. Fine. Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life, however, is too much. Now she's just flaunting the fact that she was never banished to the land of Christopher Cross; we never made her a pop culture outcast. Ingrate. The white-girl, hip-hop mulch of "Early Christmas Morning" with its classroom kiddie chorus, the Casio Karaoke sounds of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," the cruise boat conga of "Christmas Conga" -- if they don't make you put the axe to your loved ones, you're obviously made of ice and snow and called Frosty. The little girl coo of "December Child" at least sounds sincere, but if you can actually get within two songs of the CD's end without cutting your own head off, then you really have experienced the miracle of Christmas. ff782bc1db