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n. (alternative spelling of midnight English)
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Midnite is a roots reggae band from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, which started playing in 1989.
The band's music follows in tradition with the roots reggae bands of 1970s Jamaica. The lyrical portions of Midnite's compositions are characterized as the "chant and call" style which gives their music a spiritually intense and an overtly Rastafari movement feel. The lyrics are centrally focused on the plights of the oppressed, the inherent faults of the current political, economic and social settings on a global scale, and the redemption available to mankind through a life dedicated to Jah.
In 2015, the band reformed around co-founder Vaughn Benjamin as Akae Beka without bassist Ron Benjamin. Ras Elyments Took Ron Benjamins Position on Bass. Suren Felton Replaced Ras L on Keys. The reasons for the reformation have been stated as due to ''"Life changes, convictions and revelations. Stated on the band website was "Due to a medical emergency the tour is postponed" Members of the band themselves wont even say during the recent Akae Beka Coronation Tour in November 2015. '. Akae Beka's first performance took place in Denver, Colorado on July 17, 2015 in honor of Nelson Mandela Day.
Midnite may refer to:
- Midnite (band), band from the U.S. Virgin Islands
- "Midnite", a 2002 song performed by Coko
- Midnite Youth Theatre Company, Australian youth theatre company
- Doctor Mid-Nite, DC Comics fictional superhero
- Papa Midnite, DC Comics Vertigo character from "Hellblazer"
- Midnite Software Gazette, a magazine that merged into .info (magazine)
Usage examples of "midnite".
But here there was no square to stroll to, no Betty's, no blue-plate specials, no Vern's Midnite Tavern, no movie theater, no bowling alley.
Before I had left on this trip I had lain awake at night in my bed in England and pictured myself stopping each evening at a motel in a little city, strolling into town along wide sidewalks, dining on the blueplate special at Betty's Family Restaurant on the town square, then plugging a scented toothpick in my mouth and going for a stroll around the town, very probably stopping off at Vern's Midnite Tavern for a couple of draws and a game of eight-ball with the boys or taking in a movie at the Regal or looking in at the Val-Hi Bowling Alley to kibitz the Mid-Week Hairdressers' League matches before rounding off the night with a couple of games of pinball and a grilled cheese sandwich.
The Lone Ranger and Captain Midnite watched him fall to the floor.
The fifth was the self-styled leader of the Midnites, and her name was Billy.
Now the members of the Midnites had gone out and left them alone in the basement.
Billy, the leader of the Midnites, had paid a brief visit to them, her sneering arrogance only confirming what they already knew.
The lair of the Midnites was so vast that it wasn't possible for the defenders to get together in serious strength to try to locate and check the fast-moving raiders.
The surviving members of the Midnites seemed to be keeping to their own dark recesses, out of the way of the blood-eyed invaders.
Baron Palladium wouldn't allow a cult like the Midnites to survive— providing he knew they existed.
Doing his best to soften the harshness of his breathing, he listened for sounds of human habitation or, considering Brigid's tales of Midnites, inhuman habitation.