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Richie Stephens the famous singer and producer, which won a grammy awards, heralds the beginning of a new collaboration, a project with artists from Salento Rankin Lele and Papa Leu. The project name is: Richie Stephens & SkaNationBand. The first album "Internationally" will be available starting from April 15. "Internationally" is a real homage to the Ska genre. The album features 14 tracks. The link between the Jamaican singer and SkaNationBand, took place in Italy at the Festival of Casalabate. The artistic and creative feeling was immediate. The single Kingston Salento" highlights the connection and love for ska globally from the Adriatic Sea to the West Indies. The album has been recorded partly in Italy and partly in Kingston jamaica. 'Internationally' it is above all a symbol for love of Ska music and the emotions that it make arise. Many collaborations are included in this album, Sean Paul, Gentleman to Sud Sound System, they will make you hake your body. This recording gathers the contribution of some great musicians of international reggae like Cleveland "Clevie" Browne, Dean Fraser, Kirk Bennett, and the valuable support of the great Stephen "Lenky" Marsden. Richie Stephens and SkaNationBand were able to create a great working team. Staring from the musical arrangements to the lyrics, "Internationally" it will certainly make all the fans of the genre very happy. "I wish that anyone who listen to the album will realize by himself that Ska is a very serious thing, that can be on top of the charts as it was before if he is granted an opportunity to be revived as has already happened in the past", explains Richie Stephens.