Cocoa Tea is a Jamaican reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

/dancehall

Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...

 singer, songwriter

Songwriter

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, and DJ.

Biography

Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s. One of his most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later put into a dub

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

 version by Nardo Ranks entitled "Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on Dancehall Reggaespanol) which was released the same year as the original "Rikers Island". He also gained fame with the song "Young Lover". He gained notoriety in March 2008 after releasing a song titled "Barack Obama" in support of the US Presidential candidate by the same name.

Partial discography

• 2008. "Yes We Can". Roaring Lion Records
• 2007. "Biological Warfare". Minor 7 Flat Five
• 2006. Save Us Oh Jah. V.P. Records.
• 1997. Holy Mount Zion. Motown.
• 1997. RAS Portraits. Ras.
• 1996. Israel's King. V.P. Records.
• 1992. Can't Stop Cocoa Tea. V.P. Records.
• 1992. Kingston Hot. Ras.
• 1991. Riker's Island V.P. Records.
• 1986. Showdown Vol 8 (Frankie Paul & Cocoa Tea).Hitbound
• 1985. Israel Vibration Meets Cocoa Tea
• 1985. I Lost My Sonia. Volcano
• 1985. Mr. Coco Tea. Corner Stone
• 1985. Settle Down. Corner Stone
• 1985. Sweet Sweet Coco Tea. Blue Moutain
• 1985. The Marshall. Jammys
• 1985. Clash (Tenor Saw & Cocoa Tea). Hawkeye
• 1984. Rocking Dolly. RAS
• 1984. Weh Dem A Go Do. Volcano
• 1983-2006 Reggae Anthology. 17 North Parade
• 198X. Corner Stone Presents Clash Of The 80's (Cocoa Tea & Barrington Levy). Corner Stone

External links

• Cocoa Tea's Original Dancehall Jam Jam, Official Website of Cocoa Tea & Original Dancehall Jam Jam
• Cocoa Tea, Artists Only! Records
• Barack Obama by Coco Tea