Tune of the Week: Junior Delgado

Junior Delgado was Kingston, Jamaica based singer-songwriter. Despite having created songs among the elite of JA’s producers (Lee “Scratch” Perry, Niney The Observer, King Jammy) Delgado is significantly under represented in the history of popular Jamaican music. Here is a song of his produced by dub pioneer and melodica maestro Augustus Pablo. Created in 1978, a year of great political violence on the island, Delgado uses his voice and words to send a message of justice and freedom. These ideas echo in the streets around the world in 2020. Our hearts cry out once again, “Give us some freedom. Give us some justice.”