I'll be busy this Friday; this being the Christmas season .... so "Music for Fridays" gets bumped ahead one day.
Todays featured artist is one of my favorite reggae singers who, believe it or not, is a German who goes by the stage name of "Gentleman". (Note: This video went away) What's unusual about this video is the backdrop; it features the area in Bangladesh where large ships, at the end of their life, are driven ashore and then broken up .... dirty, dangerous, labor intensive work taken over by a third world country,
I have no idea why "Gentleman" decided to do a reggae music video with ships being destroyed in the background, but it is fascinating to watch.
For a more in depth story, there is the CBS "60 minutes" segment (again, link only);
Ship Breakers of Bangladesh
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