Stephen Marley and Damian Marley take us backstage on their Traffic Jam Tour
evening last month, inside a cluster of nondescript office spaces south of Miami, a rehearsal studio with a giant lion’s head painted in red, green, and gold on the concrete-block wall hums with activity. Long after the businesses surrounding them have shut down for the day, Stephen “Ragga” Marley and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley are putting their band through its paces, tuning up for the Traffic Jam tour, which will be crisscrossing the U.S. and Canada through Mar. 30.
The brothers’ determination to maintain the family legacy of musical excellence has not eased one bit over the years that they’ve accumulated 11 Grammy Awards between them as performers and producers. Over the years, Stephen has remixed their father’s classics and produced the likes of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu.
The brothers have collaborated closely on all of Damian’s releases. Damian estimates that Ragga wrote 65 percent of the lyrics on his 1996 debut,. “I would have the melodies and the flows,” he says. “Then Steve would help me with the lyrics and ting and ting until my writing skills developed more over the years.
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