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Reggae united ww – Sizzla Kalonji reggae artist.
- July 8, 2012
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Sizzla Kalonji, or simply Sizzla (born Miguel Orlando Collins, April 17, 1976, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae musician.
Sizzla belongs to the Bobo Shanti Rastfari movement.
He is one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists and is noted for his high number of releases. As of 2011 he had released over 65 solo albums.
Sizzla was born in Kingston in 1976 to devout Rastafari movement parents.
Like them Sizzla subscribes to the Bobo Ashanti branch of the Rastafari movement. He was raised in August Town, KingstonJamaica where he studied mechanical engineering at Dunoon High School.
1996 marked an important turning point for Sizzla when he began working with Fatis.[5] This union led to a run of successful singles and the release of Sizzla’s debut album, Burning Up.
Sizzla Kalonji has released over 45 solo albums and over fifteen combination albums, crossing different genres of Reggae. He has started his own record company, Kalonji Records; which in a joint venture with Damon Dash Music Group and Koch Records, released the album, The Overstanding, in November 2006.
This was his third album released through Kalonji Records; as well as Black History and Life.
Sizzla, along with reggae recording artists such as Capleton, Buju Banton, and Anthony B, are credited with leading a movement toward a re-embracement of Rastafarian values in contemporary reggae music by recording material which is concerned primarily with spirituality, social consciousness, and faith in Jah.