The 2025 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album was presented to Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired by the Film. On February 2, 2025, presenter Queen Sheba revealed the winner during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards premiere ceremony.
The album eclipsed the Wailers’ Evolution, Vybz Kartel’s Party with Me, Shenseea’s Never Gets Late Here, and Collie Buddz’s Take It Easy. Artists such as Daniel Caesar, Kacey Musgraves, Wizkid, and Skip Marley have reinterpreted Marley’s songs for the 10-track album, released in February 2024 by Tuff Gong and Island Records. It peaked at number ten on the Billboard Reggae Albums list.
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James Norton plays Chris Blackwell, Lashana Lynch plays his wife Rita, and Ben Kingsley-Adir plays Marley in the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed One Love movie. The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, which honors excellence in reggae music, including dancehall, ska, and roots reggae, had 75 submissions last year.
An album that contains more than 75% of new reggae recordings is awarded the prize. For the winning album, artists, producers, and engineers who contribute more than half of the playing time are eligible. The Kalling by Kabaka Pyramid in 2023, Julian Marley and Antaeus’s Colors of Royal in 2024, Beauty in The Silence by SOJA in 2022, and Got to Be Tough by Toots & the Maytals in 2021 are among the previous winners.
