Which reggae band released the 1980 album 'Sinsemilla'?

The reggae band that released the 1980 album “Sinsemilla” was Black Uhuru.

“Sinsemilla” was Black Uhuru’s third album and was released in Jamaica in 1980 through the Island Records subsidiary Mango. The group’s lineup at the time included Michael Rose, Derrick “Duckie” Simpson and Puma Jones, with the influential rhythm team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare closely involved in the recording.

The album helped Black Uhuru develop an international audience with its combination of roots-reggae themes, prominent harmonies and powerful bass-and-drum arrangements. Its title refers to seedless cannabis, a term commonly associated with Jamaican musical and cultural vocabulary. The album is sometimes confused with “Red,” Black Uhuru’s better-known 1981 follow-up, which reached a wider international market.

Black Uhuru later won the first Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album for “Anthem” in 1985. “Sinsemilla,” however, remains an important earlier release in the group’s rise and in the development of internationally recognized Jamaican roots reggae.