Song
Kaya
Roots
3:17
BPM
84
Key
Am
4/4
Tuff Gong International
ISRC: JMRC1802197
Plays
32.9K
Loves
761
Released
2025
Story behind the song
Recorded in a single afternoon at Tuff Gong. The vocal take you hear on the final master is the first one — we tried a few more polished versions but nothing matched the raw emotion of that first pass. Sometimes you have to trust the moment.
Writing
- Songwriter
- Bob Marley
- Co-writer
- Dean Fraser
Production
- Producer
- Errol Brown
- Co-producer
- Don Corleon
Performance
- Percussion
- Dean Fraser
- Drums
- Dwight Pinkney
- Bass
- Ronald "Nambo" Robinson
- Horns
- Robbie Lyn
- Lead vocals
- Bob Marley
Engineering
- Mixed by
- Steven Stewart
- Mastered by
- King Tubby
[Verse 1] City lights are burning bright tonight Bass line dropping heavy through the night Dance floor calling, hear them speakers cry Let the music take you, let your spirit fly [Pre-chorus] Feel it in your bones now Feel it taking over Don't you stop, don't you slow down [Chorus] Move your body to the rhythm Feel the riddim in your chest This is more than just a song This is what we love the best [Verse 2] From the islands to the city street Every culture sharing the same beat Music brings us close like family That's the magic, that's the harmony
Energy
44%
Danceability
85%
Positivity
27%
Acoustic
46%
Instrumental
50%
Live feel
28%
Speechy
4%
- ISRC
- JMRC1802197
- ISWC
- T-278.506.987-0
- UPC
- 0884385002287
- Catalog number
- TGR-2022-194
- Label
- Tuff Gong International
- Publisher
- Domino Publishing
- Recording studio
- Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire
- Recording date
- August 20, 2021
- ℗ line
- ℗ 2025 Tuff Gong International
- © line
- © 2022 Domino Publishing
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