Roots Reggae (1984) [Unrealesed Album] SELAH IRIE - ECHOES OF FREEDOM

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Selah Irie emerged in the early 1980s as one of the hidden voices of conscious reggae. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she grew up surrounded by sound systems, grassroots poetry, and the pulse of Rastafari culture. With a smoky, soul-stirring voice, Selah blended traditional roots reggae with elements of dub and spoken word, setting her apart from many of her peers.

Her unreleased debut album, Echoes of Freedom (1984), was recorded in a small studio in Trenchtown but never officially published due to financial struggles and political unrest at the time. Despite this, bootleg recordings and live performances around Kingston gave her music underground acclaim.

Selah’s songs carried strong themes of liberation, spirituality, and resilience, making her a symbol of feminine strength in a male-dominated reggae scene. Though her career was brief and largely undocumented, her legacy lives on as one of reggae’s “lost voices,” representing the countless artists whose fire burned bright but faded before the world could fully hear them.


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Selah Irie is remembered as one of the hidden voices of Jamaica’s roots reggae movement. Rising out of Kingston in the early 1980s, she carried a soulful yet militant tone that set her apart from her peers. In 1984 she recorded her first and only project, Echoes of Freedom, an unreleased album that blended heavy dub rhythms with spiritual chants and heartfelt lyrics about liberation, resilience, and Rastafari culture. Though the album was never officially released, rare underground recordings kept her name alive among collectors and fans of unreleased reggae albums. Today, Selah Irie is celebrated as one of reggae’s forgotten queens, a female artist whose music captured the struggle and hope of her time, and whose lost album Echoes of Freedom remains a powerful symbol of the golden age of roots reggae.