| Soulful Reggae star, Gramps Morgan
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| Has taken a stance in solidarity with
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| The family of Trayvon Martin, the 17
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| Year old boy recently killed in Florida
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| To date, the man who shot and killed
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| Trayvon has not been charged. |
| So in
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| An effort to support the Martin
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| Family’s demand for justice, Dada Son
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| Is donating a portion of the proceeds
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| Single, 'Life Too Short'
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| «Yes Rasta!» |
| American-Jamaican
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| Crooner, Gramps Morgan is
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| Unleashing another anthem with his
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| Unique brand of 'Rockaz'. |
| His first
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| Single 'Life Too Short’emerges from
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| His upcoming second, solo album
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| Reggae Music Lives which will be
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| Released on April 24 2012, in time for
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| Mother’s Day
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| Penned with his brother Peetah
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| Morgan, 'Life Too Short' was co-
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| And keyboardist, Llamar 'Riff Raff'
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| Brown (Stephen Marley)
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| Gramps Morgan has the gift of
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| Aimed precisely at the listener’s soul
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| Through song, Morgan reminds us to
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| Live this life while we still have it
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| Gramps says 'Life Too Short' is
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| Simply «a song of comfort», and as a
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| Firm believer in delivering music to
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| Heal humanity, 'Life Too Short' raises
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| Consciousness of the fragility and
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| Sanctity of life
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| Tend toward the positive in all
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| Situations, so when he belts out
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| «…Life too short fi a stress di small
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| Things when we know
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| Jah bless me with everything /Life
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| Too short fi a worry bout bad mind
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| When the world a suffer from war and
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| Crime…» he means that he draws his
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| Strength from Jah/God
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| Believing in a greater power than self
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| Gramps urges the listener to stop
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| Wasting time sweating the small stuff
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| And to let go of grudges and «bad
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| Mind» (a Jamaican idiom that refers to
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| Being envious of, or grudging
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| Someone)
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| Gramps' perspective on the murder of
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| Trayvon Martin is that of a father and
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| An American citizen. |
| In a recent
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| Statement the Centric Soul Train
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| Nominee said: «I couldn’t imagine that
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| Ever happening to my son.» |
| He’s
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| Speaking of his eldest, Jemere. |
| «As a
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| Father of a 16 year old… I don’t know
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| What I would do if I was in that
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| Situation, but I know that justice must
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| Be served.»
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| «We have been following the tragedy
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| That has happened with Trayvon,»
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| Explains Wendy Morgan, Gramps'
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| Manager, «and after reading a report
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| That he was a lover of Reggae music
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| It humbled us to have someone of
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| That age love our music. |
| We wanted
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| To do our part to pay respect to his
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| Young life and contribute to help
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| Keep Trayvon’s memory and legacy
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| Alive.»
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| 'Life Too Short' was recorded in
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| Kingston, Jamaica at Grafton Studio
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| And Dada Son Recording Studio in
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| Atlanta Georgia |