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Article: Black Uhuru reunites
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- February 18, 2004
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WITH three full days before the prestigious Grammy Awards, the first group to ever win one in the Reggae category is reuniting after more than two decades apart.
The Weekly Gleaner has learnt that Derrick 'Duckie' Simpson and Michael Rose, the original Black Uhuru members, were re-united recently after a 20-odd year split. This move will rise the name Black Uhuru again, as the group has planned a Black Uhuru album, a reunion concert, an anniversary show and a world tour to commemorate the reunion. These plans however are still being developed.
This marks the end of nearly 20 years of non contact between the men, due in part to the split of the original group in the late 1980s. Before ...