You can produce reggae anywhere, but it’s not going to feel like Jamaica. You feel the reggae vibe here on the island. “ You won’t get hip hop if you’re not from NY, LA, or places in America where you can feel the vibe. “ It’s just the pulse of the people,” Peter observes. One Calling, produced by Jammy and released by Greensleeves/VP, delivered smash hits “God Is God, “Trodding To Zion,” “Coming Home” and the title track. Protect Us Jah, produced by Bobby Digital and released in 1997, by Brickwall/VP, includes hit singles “Set Yourself Free,” “Let’s Make Up,” “Live Up,” and the set’s title song, which was the first Morgan Heritage tune to make the reggae take notice of the group. That’s what really brought us into the Jamaican marketplace.” “ It was like working with Sly and Robbie but on a more grassroots rather than an international level. “ They have a history in reggae and breaking many dancehall and reggae artists,” says Peter. For the children raised in Brooklyn, it was a true homecoming, and they began digging deeper to discover their musical/cultural roots by working with such famed local producers as Bobby “Digital” Dixon and Lloyd “King Jammy” James. The following year, Morgan and his family returned to Jamaica, settling in bucolic St. Morgan Heritage was released from its contract late in 1994. It’s an MCA record with Morgan Heritage only as the artists performing.” We had recorded almost 30 songs with Sly and Robby and other Jamaican producers before and after Sunsplash, but MCA only wanted one Sly and Robbie song. During the two years we were making the album, the music got more and more diluted from its original form. When they first saw us, they knew our music was reggae, but after we were finally signed, they started dealing with us politically, telling us they want ‘this’ and `that’ type of song for pop radio. “ We were viewed as a Jackson Five story within reggae. “ At the time, majors were signing reggae because the deejay thing was getting pop play with Mad Cobra, Shabba Ranks, and Patra,” says Peter. Miracles, the group’s debut album, was released in 1994. Morgan Heritage was a virtual unknown in Jamaica when an awed MCA A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executive signed the group in Montego Bay, hot off the Reggae Sunsplash ’92 stage. Home had a Jamaican, Rastafarian atmosphere.” Our parents spoke to us only in Jamaican at home, but our dad would urge us to speak more American. We even had chickens running around our yards in both places. “ But Springfield is close to the countryside, like Jamaica. “ We were always aware of American culture,” says lead singer Peter. We came back to Brooklyn on weekends to practice in our father’s recording studio.” Yet within the United States, Morgan and his familyd created a tiny pocket of Jamaica. “ All the children were educated in Springfield, Massachusetts,” says Una, “ Our grandmother moved first, then called our dad and told him to move there for the better education system and nicer environment. They learned to play R&B, rock, as well as reggae. Mojo, Lukes, Peter, Grandpa, and Una were born in Brooklyn, New York, (he moved to New York in 1961) and raised with their ears tuned to a world of music. Morgan Heritage is made up of 5 out of the 29 children fathered by reggae star Denroy Morgan – who released a gold-certified single with ’81’s “I’ll Do Anything For You.” Denroy Morgan’s children: Mr. Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusions