page_title: Tuff Gong
section_title: Recording studio
hierarchical_section_title: Tuff Gong / Recording studio
caption_attribution_description: Tuff Gong. Foto: Dubdem e FabDub.
context_page_description: Tuff Gong is the brand name associated with a number of businesses started by Bob Marley and the Marley family. 'Tuff Gong' comes from Marley's nickname, which was in turn an echo of that given to founder of the Rastafari movement, Leonard "The Gong" Howell.
context_section_description: Tuff Gong is a full-service recording studio located in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1981, Bob Marley's wife, Rita Marley, purchased Ken Khouri's Federal Records recording studio, the island's very first pressing plant, and the company subsequently moved from 56 Hope Road to 220 Marcus Garvey Drive, where it continues to operate.
  Tuff Gong includes a recording studio, mastering room, stamper room, pressing plant, cassette plant, wholesale record shop, booking agency, as well as offices for Rita Marley Music and Ghetto Youths International.
  Tuff Gong International studio is one of the largest Caribbean studios and features the second-largest live recording space on the islands. Artists, musicians, producers and tourists travel from around the world to visit the facility that birthed songs such as "No Woman, No Cry", "Trenchtown Rock", "Stir It Up", "Catch a Fire", "Redemption Song", "Buffalo Soldier" and "Could You Be Loved".
  A longtime resource for Jamaican musicians, Tuff Gong has been the location of recordings from Rita Marley, Capleton, Sly and Robbie, Shaggy, Bounty Killa, Lady Saw, Vybz Kartel, Popcaan, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, I-Wayne, Beenie Man, Jimmy Cliff, and many others.
  International music stars, such as Snoop Dogg, Sinead O'Connor, Kenny Chesney, Lauryn Hill, Self Defense Family, and Tiken Jah Fakoly have chosen the studio for both its recording resources and its history.
  A renewed international interest in Jamaican music has led to studio being used by a younger generation of artists, including Major Lazer.
caption: The Tuff Gong Recording Studio
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