For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...
Music is one of the best windows into a culture—and nowhere is that more evident than Jamaica. The Caribbean country is known for its sound above all else, having gifted the globe with six genres of ...
Jimmy Cliff was an absolute legend in the reggae world, one of the names who brought the music from Jamaica to the mainstream with hit after hit. He was also an actor in The Harder They Come.
Jamaican singer Cocoa Tea, whose celebrated career blurred the divide between roots reggae's righteous convictions and ...
During the festival, Jamaican music legends Clifford "Mr. Vegas" Smith, whose breakout hits "Nike Air" and "Heads High" catapulted him to international fame in 1997; Sly Dunbar, legendary drummer of ...
Even after his chart-topping song Mama Don’t Cry became one of the biggest Jamaican hits three years ago, Windel Beneto Edward aka Gyptian’s popularity in Kenya remained dismal compared to that of ...
Jamaica’s tourism sector received a significant boost this summer due to its popular annual music festival, Reggae Sumfest. Iconic Montego Bay Music Festival Attracts Numerous Visitors to Island ...
KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...