Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film Wins Best Reggae Album Grammy Award
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February 2, 2025
Sunday, February 2, marked the 67th staging of the Annual Grammy Awards, and Jamaicans Shenseea and Vybz Kartel were present at the highly anticipated event. Jamaicans across the world were locked in on the best Reggae Album Category, which included Vybz Kartel, Shenseea, Collie Buddz, The Wailers, and various artists for Bob Marley: One Love—Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe).
The 2025 Grammy Award went to ‘Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe)’.
Collie Buddz was nominated for his ‘Take It Easy’ project, Shenseea for ‘Never Gets Late Here’, Vybz Kartel for ‘Party With Me’, Thw Wailers for ‘Evolution’ and Various artistes for ‘One Love – Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe)’.
Released in February of 2024, The project that was put together for the movie featured 10 tracks, see the track list below:
- Natural Mystic – Bloody Civilian
- Exodus – Skip Marley
- Waiting In Vain – Daniel Caesar
- Three Little Birds – Kacey Musgraves
- One Love – Wizkid
- Is This Love – Jessie Reyez
- Redemption Song – Leon Bridges
- Rasta Reggae (Jamming) – Farruko
- Misty Morning – Mystic Marley
- No Woman No Cry – Shenseea
The Grammy’s Best Reggae Album award recognises albums of excellence in the Jamaican-created genres of Reggae, Ska, and Dancehall. While Dancehall’s prominence in Jamaica over Reggae is undeniable, its practitioners, especially over the past few years, have had a hard time competing against Reggae worldwide.
Shenseea born Chinsea Linda Lee, now 28 years old, previously received Grammy recognition for her contribution to rapper Ye’s album Donda. In 2024, after highlighting that she was not done with Dancehall, Shenseea stated “I have to win a Reggae Grammy… I need to win a Reggae Grammy.”
Notably, the ‘Hit and Run’ artiste did not attend the Grammy’s when she was nominated for work done on YE’s album. Explaining her absence, she stated that she “need people to recognise” that she is waiting for “our time” and she will only attend the Grammys when she’s nominated for a Reggae Album.
Check out Shenseea and Kartel at the Grammys below:
