Jamal (band)
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Jamal is a Radom
-based Polish
raggamuffin, reggae
and dancehall music group. At various times, it included members Gienia, Księżyc, LUU, EMZK and Siekierka.
The group was founded in 1999 by Łukasz Borowiecki and Tomasz Mioduszewski. The duo started initially as a hip hop
rap
band, performed mainly in Polish
.
The band reformed in 2005 and on June 18 that year, they released a debut album Rewolucje on EMI
, with a strong influence of reggae, dancehall and raggamuffin. On October 3, 2008 Urban Discotheque album was released with bilingual output with some parts sung in French by Frenchman (of Bass Medium Trinity) in addition to band singing in Polish.
Radom
Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...
-based Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
raggamuffin, 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...
and dancehall music group. At various times, it included members Gienia, Księżyc, LUU, EMZK and Siekierka.
The group was founded in 1999 by Łukasz Borowiecki and Tomasz Mioduszewski. The duo started initially as a hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
rap
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
band, performed mainly in Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
.
The band reformed in 2005 and on June 18 that year, they released a debut album Rewolucje on EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
, with a strong influence of reggae, dancehall and raggamuffin. On October 3, 2008 Urban Discotheque album was released with bilingual output with some parts sung in French by Frenchman (of Bass Medium Trinity) in addition to band singing in Polish.
Singles
- 2005: Tubaka
- 2005: Policeman
- 2009: "Pull up" (feat. Grizzlee)
- 2009: "Słońca łan" (feat. Frenchman)