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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re just listening to music featured in No Time To Die!
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973, Mark Anthony Myrie was the youngest of fifteen children. Myrie’s mother gave him the nickname Buju as a child, and he admired DJ Burro Banton (Banton being a Jamaican word for a respected storyteller). By age 12, Myrie had picked up a microphone and the stage name of Buju Banton.
Banton started releasing dancehall music in 1987, and by 1992, had the best-selling album in Jamaican history. Banton also broke the record for number 1 singles in Jamaica that same year, surpassing the mark previously held by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Banton has become one of the most significant and well-regarded artists in Jamaican music history, collaborating with international artists across multiple genres, including Bob Marley’s sons.
A five-time nominee, Banton won a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with his album Before the Dawn, just one day before going on trial for drug and weapons charges. He was convicted on multiple charges in the U.S. and imprisoned until December 2018. Banton was then released and deported to Jamaica.
Banton’s music makes our list with this 1994 12” single ‘Champion.’ The reggae/dancehall classic can be heard at 36:29 into No Time To Die, when Bond and Felix Leiter go into the Good ovr Evil club to play some three-coin spoof.
Here’s the scene, skip to around 3:00 for the featured music:
Though the track was more than 26 years old by the time it was included as incidental music in NTTD, it’s a great fit for the Jamaican nightclub scene.
154. Buju Banton – Champion
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