Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That same self-determination, that instinct toward rebelling against the establishment, and of course, that inextricable tie to ...

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 ...

3 Ja Rule, LeToya Luckett & DJ Kid Capri to Headline NYC Juneteenth Celebration in Central Park "It's our aim to bring a range of new Jamaican music to the masses," says Sshh. "An evolution of roots, ...

Reggae legend Bob Marley's "One Love" topped a list of Jamaica's 100 best songs over 50 years that was unveiled on Tuesday by a panel of musicians and cultural officials associated with the University ...

International Reggae Day is celebrated on July 1 every year. Here’s how reggae was born in Jamaica, why the day was created and how the genre transformed global music.

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that “Toast,” by ...

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

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s central bank thinks the country’s economy is doing very well and it is using an instantly recognizable symbol of the island to get this message to the people: reggae ...

Jamaican reggae artiste Fantan Mojah has died at the age of 49, just weeks before his 50th birthday. According to reports, ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...