"Shine" became 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...

 group Aswad's second big hit, after 1988's "Don't Turn Around

Don't Turn Around

"Don't Turn Around" is a popular song written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond. It was originally recorded by Tina Turner as the B-side to the single "Typical Male" in 1986. Warren is said to have been disappointed that Turner's record company treated the song as a B-side and never included it on...

". Released in early 1994 in a radically remixed form courtesy of The Beatmasters, it was the first single

Single (music)

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 from the group's album Rise And Shine. It eventually reached the Top 5 of the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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, peaking at #5, giving the group their second Top 5 hit. This was followed by chart success in the rest of Europe

Europe

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 as well as in Japan

Japan

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 and the Caribbean

Caribbean

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. "Shine" and "Don't Turn Around" remain the group's most popular hits.