Legacy Īnthem won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording in 1985, the first year the award existed.
Musically, it fuses roots reggae and dub with 'synthetic', electropop instrumentation and effects, resulting in an 'ambiance of pop-reggae futurism'. Lyrically, Anthem retains the trenchancy of its predecessors, criticizing social injustice and economic materialism and extolling Rastafarian values such as Afrocentrism, social equality and ital diet. Anthem has been released in three editions, each with different track listings and mixes, as well as a box set. In 1985, the album won Black Uhuru the first Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording.
Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas and Dynamic Studio, Kingston, JamaicaĪnthem is an album by Black Uhuru, released originally in 1983 and internationally in 1984.