Tribute to the Legend: Bob Marley is an album by the Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 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...

 band

Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...

, Cultura Profética

Cultura Profética

Cultura Profética is a Puerto Rican reggae band that debuted in 1996. They have toured in Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Mexico and the United States...

. The album is a live performance of a tribute the band held to Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n 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...

 singer Bob Marley

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

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The album was recorded on February 4, 2006, at the Tito Puente Amphitheatre

Tito Puente Amphitheatre

The Tito Puente Amphitheatre is a concert amphitheater in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is named after the late mambo musician and percussionist Tito Puente. It was previously named "Luis Muñoz Marín Amphitheatre" The amphitheatre is a frequent spot for concerts of all kinds of music...

 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, and was released on May 8, 2007.

Production

As a reggae band, Cultura Profética have always been fans of Bob Marley's music. This is noted in their performance of Marley's songs (or adaptations of them) in some of their previous albums. On their second album, Ideas Nuevas

Ideas Nuevas

Ideas Nuevas is the second album by the Puerto Rican reggae band, Cultura Profética. Like their first album, it was recorded in Jamaica at Marley Music Studios under the Tuff Gong label...

, they performed a cover of "So Much Trouble". The song "Bieke", featured on their third studio album, Diario

Diario (album)

Diario is the third studio album by the Puerto Rican reggae band, Cultura Profética. Like previous albums, most of it was recorded at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston, Jamaica. Some of it was also recorded at Playbach Studios in San Juan, Puerto Rico...

, is an adaptation of "Zimbabwe".

Since the early 2000s, the band has performed several tribute concerts to Marley. However, this time they decided to record it and release it as a homage

Homage

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 to the Jamaican singer. The track listing follows closely the one from Legend, Marley's best known hit collection. On previous tributes, the band had performed some more obscure songs from Marley, but this time they wanted the audience to fully join in.

For this album, usual singer Willy Rodríguez passed the microphone to the band's drummer and vocalist Boris Bilbraut. According to Rodríguez, Bilbraut's voice is closer to Marley's. Bilbraut has been the lead singer of some of the band's songs.

Disc 1: CD

1. "Is This Love
   Is This Love (Bob Marley song)
   "Is This Love" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released on his 1978 album Kaya. The song became one of the best known Marley songs and was part of the Legend compilation...
   
   " – 4:38
2. "Buffalo Soldier
   Buffalo Soldier (song)
   "Buffalo Soldier" is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Noel G. "King Sport" Williams from Marley's final recording sessions in 1980. It did not appear on record until the 1983 posthumous release of Confrontation, when it became one of Marley's best-known songs.The title and lyrics refer to...
   
   " – 4:36
3. "Positive Vibration" – 5:03
4. "Natural Mystic" – 4:30
5. "No Woman, No Cry
   No Woman, No Cry
   "No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song first became known in 1974 through the studio album Natty Dread. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known — it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. The original...
   
   " – 6:48
6. "Slogans
   Slogans (song)
   "Slogans" is a remixed version of Bob Marley song released 24 years after his death.The 2005 single was released on the greatest hits album Africa Unite and was the second last song on the album....
   
   " – 4:05
7. "Exodus" – 6:27
8. "Redemption Song
   Redemption Song
   The song urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds". These lines were taken from a speech given by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia during October 1937 and published in his Black Man magazine:...
   
   " – 5:43
9. "Easy Skankin'" – 4:46
10. "Small Axe" – 5:50
11. "Pimper's Paradise" – 4:16
12. "Rat Race" – 4:29
13. "Get Up, Stand Up
    Get Up, Stand Up
    "Get Up, Stand Up" is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.The song originally appeared on The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin. It was recorded and played live in numerous versions by The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers, along with solo versions by Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer...
    
    " – 9:42

Disc 2: DVD

1. "Is This Love"
2. "Buffalo Soldier"
3. "Positive Vibration"
4. "Natural Mystic"
5. "No Woman, No Cry"
6. "Slogans"
7. "Exodus"
8. "Redemption Song"
9. "Easy Skankin'"
10. "Small Axe"
11. "Pimper's Paradise"
12. "Rat Race"
13. "Get Up, Stand Up"

Musicians

• Willy Rodríguez - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , background vocals
• Boris Bilbraut - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , lead vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Bayrex Jimenez – Piano, Keyboards
• Omar Silva – Electric guitar
• Arturo Vergés – Trombone

Recording

• Recorded at the Tito Puente Amphitheatre
  Tito Puente Amphitheatre
  The Tito Puente Amphitheatre is a concert amphitheater in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is named after the late mambo musician and percussionist Tito Puente. It was previously named "Luis Muñoz Marín Amphitheatre" The amphitheatre is a frequent spot for concerts of all kinds of music...
  
   in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  San Juan, Puerto Rico
  San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
  
  .