The annual Grammy Music Awards will be presented in Los Angeles on February.

The Reggae Grammy is part of the Grammy Award by 25 years and includes a Best Reggae Album category, which is the most important.

Unluckily, this year ceremony for Reggae Grammy Award will be presented in the pre-show only, which won’t be televised.

The Reggae category at the Grammy Awards, originally referred to as Best Reggae Recording, was first introduced in 1985 and reggae band Black Uhuru received the first award for their album, Anthem, the same year.

The name of the category was changed to Best Reggae Album in ’92.

The list of nominees for this year Best Reggae Album  is led by Buju Banton, whose Before The Dawn was released earlier this year while he was incarcerated in a Tampa jail on drug charges.

The album is said to be a prophetic piece of work and marks his fifth Grammy nod.

Another important nomination to make history is the one for the album Isaacs Meets Isaac.

This album is a collaboration between the legendary Reggae crooner, Gregory Isaacs and South African – based King Isaac.

Veteran artist and producer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry makes another of his appearances at the Grammys, as he is nominated for his album, titled “Revelation”.

Perry won his first Grammy back in  2003 for the project Jamaican E.T. Jamaica’s rhythm twins, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, that are also known as Sly & Robbie, have a double nomination for the awards.

They are nominated for Made in Jamaica which also features singer Bob Sinclair, and One Pop Reggae which includes The Family Taxi.

This time, the second generation reggae act is represented by Andrew Tosh, son of legendary Wailer, Peter Tosh. 

The younger Tosh’s project, Legacy An Acoustic Tribute To Peter Tosh seems to have hit with the Grammy voters, earning the nomination.

Reggae artist and son of Bob Marley, Stephen Marley, holds the record for most Grammy Award wins in the Reggae category.

He has won a total of five trophies three times as a member of the sibling band The Melody Makers, and twice as a solo act.

Shabba Ranks became the first deejay to take home a Grammy. First in 1992 for As Raw As Ever, then he followed up in 1993 with X-tra Naked.

Other Jamaican acts to take the Grammy for Best Reggae Album are Shaggy, Sean Paul, Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley, Beenie Man, Inner Circle, Bunny Wailer and Burning Spear.