House of Shem is a

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band from New Zealand. They have had songs featured on the Conscious Roots compilations. In May 2008, their debut album, ''Keep Rising'' was released throughout New Zealand. It was released again in April 2009 throughout Australia and Hawaii. In April 2010, House of Shem started recording their second album ''Island Vibration'' with engineer and producer

Errol Brown Lester Errol Brown MBE (12 November 1943 – 6 May 2015) was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. In 2004, Brown received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contributi ...

who has worked with many well known reggae bands and artists such as Alton Ellis, Bob Marley & The Wailers,

Gregory Isaacs Gregory Anthony Isaacs OD (15 July 1951 – 25 October 2010)Thompson, p. 127. was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in ''The New York Times'', described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae".Miles, Milo (1992),RECORDI ...

, Peter Tosh and

Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers were a Jamaican-American reggae family group whose line-up consisted of the children of musicians, Bob Marley and Rita Marley, which includes lead singer Ziggy Marley with Sharon Marley, Cedella Marley, and ...

. The album was released in New Zealand on 14 February 2011. In 2013, they released their third album, ''Harmony'', on which they worked with Jamaican engineer

Band members

*Carl Perkins – Vocals/Producer (died on 9 May 2018 from

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Band members

Discography

Albums

Compilations

References

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