Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who's unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his ...

How a teenage gospel singer from Kingston became one of Jamaica’s boldest, cheekiest voices, and helped carry a musical ...

Jamaican reggae singer Fantan Mojah, best known for "Hungry" and "Rasta Got Soul," has died at 49 after reported ...

Travelers to Jamaica will find an array of music and cultural events taking place across the island this summer, highlighted by the 31st year of the Reggae Sumfest concert series. The island’s music, ...

Jamaican music has long been the unofficial soundtrack to celebrations around the world. From Olympic victory laps to packed ...

Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and television broadcasting deemed to glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming, and weapons. The directive says that ...

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, ...

In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks and on beaches, partying to music that was spun by entrepreneurial disc jockeys and piped through outdoor loudspeakers. This quirk of ...

Reggae is the musical genre most commonly associated with Jamaica and its distant roots are in folk music, while its closer relatives are the ska and rocksteady styles of the 1960s. Ska developed out ...