WHEN Tony Brevett died in October 2013, it left Trevor McNaughton as the sole survivor of The Melodians, one of reggae’s great harmony groups. The other original member, Brent Dowe, passed away in ...

Rocksteady legendary group The Melodians is back in the game with a new single, the trio’s first release since the death of founder Trevor McNaughton two years ago. The single, I’ll Take You Where The ...

The Melodians are best known for the haunting “Rivers of Babylon,” the biblically inspired Rasta lament found on the soundtrack to the 1972 cult film The Harder They Come. But in Jamaica, the ...

Trojan Records is reporting that Brent Gayford Dowe of the Melodians passed away at the end of January. The singer and founding member suffered from a heart attack in his home in Hugenden, Jamaica on ...

Roots reggae fans should be out in force at Saturday’s performance by The Melodians at Sound Wave (formerly ’Canes) in Mission Beach, and for very good reason. Formed in 1965 by singers Brent Dowe, ...

The rocksteady movement-which emerged in Jamaica after ska, and foreshadowed reggae-yielded a great deal of memorable music. Some of the best of it issued from the Melodians, a vocal group whose ...

Tony Brevett and Trevor McNaughton of The Melodians Jamaican legends The Melodians celebrate 50 years of making rocksteady magic this year, and Tony Brevett and Trevor McNaughton, the only remaining ...

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