On the heels of the hugely successful ‘Love From A Distance’ virtual concert, reggae legend Beres Hammond teams up with dancehall star Popcaan for the release of the new single and music video “God is Love,” just two weeks after its debut during the livestream broadcast.
If you missed the huge live virtual celebration of Beres Hammond life’s and career that features some of the biggest names of reggae dancehall music paying tribute to the living legend, no worries, watch below the full show, pre show included, that was one of the highlights of this year and is more than 2 hours long and features Popcaan live performance with Beres, as well as Buju Banton, Marcia Griffiths and many many more!
Beres Hammond Love From A Distance 2021 Live Reggae Show From Jamaica
Beres and Popcaan premiered “God Is Love” to cap the February 28th event with an inspired performance and the tremendous popular response has prompted the rush release of the collaboration, the first between these two top stars of the reggae genre.
The songs producer Shane Brown of Jukeboxx Productions said
“the song was inspired by a dream. The combination of Beres and Popcaan is refreshing, and the message of the song is real.” The music video for the song, shot on the Harmony House productions lot, on March 1st, is scheduled to debut online in the coming days,”.
“God Is Love” is available on all digital and streaming platforms beginning Friday, March 12th. Get it clicking on the banners posted on this page.
About Beres Hammond
Over the course of a 40-year career, Beres has poured his smoky-sweet voice—an instrument of subtlety and power reminiscent of an Otis Redding or a Teddy Pendergrass—over every kind of riddim track, from the funked-up reggae jams of the ’70s fusion band Zap Pow to the lush instrumentation of his 1976 album Soul Reggae to the spare digital beat of his 1985 dancehall breakthrough “What One Dance Can Do.”
Cuts like “Tempted To Touch” and “Who Say” with Buju Banton are still as effective in the dancehall today as they were as pre-releases.
The ’90s were the decade for Hammond’s breakthrough, during which he blazed a trail of modern classics for a variety of producers, from the strugglers’ anthem “Putting Up Resistance” (Tappa) to lovers’ laments like “Come Back Home” (Star Trail) and “Double Trouble” (Steely & Clevie).
Beres’s sophisticated musical taste and inimitable delivery is well suited to translate easily across cultural divides, yet the international reggae massive has remained his most loyal fan base.
About Popcaan:
