The Rototom Sunsplash, One of the main reggae festivals in Europe, This year will celebrate three decades of music and this week revealed its poster for this new edition with more than 60 confirmed artists in which in addition to great exponents of the international reggae appear the national artists Ana Tijoux Y Original movement.
The event explained that as in these 30 Years of History continues to bet on musical styles arising from reggae or merged with him, Like hip hop, And in that sense the invitation for Ana Tijoux “One of the most influential figures of Latin American hip hop, With a work that combines the musical -a fusion of hip hop, folklore latinoamericano, Reggae and electronics- and social activism, addressing issues such as feminism, inequality and human rights”.
In the same line the invitation is produced for Original movement, “One of the most influential of the reggae and hip hop scene in Spanish and that, From your training, He has marked a before and after in urban music with a message of consciousness, Love and resistance”.
Anyway Rototom is an eminently reggae festival, which It will be held between the 16 Y 23 August of this year in Benicassim, Spain, And for this edition of the 30 years come together with several commemorations among the artists who will be presented in any of their 8 Conference.
For example the case of Shaggy, celebrating 30 years of launching “Boombastic”, The issue that catapulted him and projected him to the international mainstream, or also like Steel Pulse, The legendary band that collaborated at the expansion of reggae in the United Kingdom, You are celebrating 50 years of career with an impressive validity.
The version 2025 of Rototom coincides with the birth 80 from Bob Marley and The Wailers, in addition to Ky-Many Marley, They will be in charge of honoring all the musical legacy of Bob on stage, while Misty in Roots It represents another of the significant names in the history of the festival since it was the first international reggae show organized by Rototom in February of 1992 And British training also celebrates its 50 years of career faithful to your roots style.
With a markedly roots profile in this edition, Burning Spear It is another frequent visitors and one of the central inspiring of this festival after its presentation in 1993 en La disco de gaio of spilimbergo (Italy) Where a year later this reggae macrocyte was born.
Thus also drives this Roots character the ivory The bitch Jah Fakoly, One of the most influential African voices, claims and viral, how evidenced one of more recent and moving actions: The starring next to a choir of 850 people interpreting “Nothing surprises me anymore” (“Nothing surprises me”) In the Nuits de Champagne festival, In northern France.
They are added Tarrus Riley; Morgan Heritage With the incorporation of the promising voice of the young man Jemere Morgan; Third World;The Meditations; Easy Star All-Stars, that will present the Dub Side of the Moon show; Taj Weekes; Kumar Fyah, exvoitst of the band Raging Fyah, that will present your solo show, among many others, make this year's festival, Although the organization said there are still ads to make in the coming weeks.
