In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

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 ...

The 17th annual Bayfront Reggae and World Music Festival was held on Saturday July 15 and it featured artists celebrating cultural equality through reggae and world music. The 2023 show held in the ...

Chris Stein knew he heard something special in "The Tide Is High". He was right, as Blondie covered it and turned it into a ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Cliff was an absolute legend in the reggae world, one of the names who brought the music from Jamaica to the mainstream with ...

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 ...

The South Florida city of Miramar staged its fifth Reggae Icon Awards on February 26 with Clive Murphy of The Tennors, bass ...