Latest Release
- 16 MAY 2024
- 1 Song
- INTELLIGENZA NATURALE · 2024
- Mi Fortaleza - Single · 2024
- Love Is so Special - Single · 2024
- Fino al Sole - Single · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- Dub Pirate · 2024
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- A gravel-voiced, consciousness-raising Italian Rastafarian.
About Alborosie
The unlikely reggae star Alborosie was born Alberto D'Ascola in Sicily, in 1977. He performed in Italy's Reggae National Tickets band as a dreadlocked teenager and moved to Jamaica in the early 2000s, working as a sound engineer and producer before releasing his debut album, Soul Pirate, in 2009. A self-styled "reggae ambassador", Alborosie defiantly paid his dues in a wild milieu (his stage moniker combines his given name with a Jamaican insult he endured) and specialised in self-conscious lyrics that include, "I'm Italian but not Columbus". His respect for and dedication to the roots reggae cause attracted A-list collaborators, including Horace Andy and Dennis Brown, for the collection Specialist Presents Alborosie & Friends in 2014, and he recruited Bob Marley's former backing group for 2018's Unbreakable: Alborosie Meets the Wailers United. Respectable dub albums, such as 2015's excellent Dub of Thrones: Alborosie Meets King Jammy, punctuate his numerous studio releases, on which Alborosie singsongs in credible patois and, occasionally, croons in lovers-rock Italian.
- HOMETOWN
- Marsala, Sicily, Italy
- BORN
- 4 July 1977
- GENRE
- Reggae