Bunny Wailer, one of the most influential singers in reggae music history, died Tuesday at age 73. Along with a young Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, the artist born Neville O’Riley Livingston co-founded ...
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With roots deep in the mid-1960s Kingston, Jamaica, “rock steady” sound but exhibiting decades of evolution, the reggae giants who played the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday -- Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the ...
Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who was instrumental in taking reggae global, has died. Cliff’s wife, Latifa Chambers, and his family announced the news in a post on the singer’s social media pages, ...
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, ...
You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...
While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...
Sugar Minott, a Jamaican singer, songwriter, producer and DJ who played a key role in the spread of dancehall reggae in the 1980s, died July 10 in a Kingston hospital. He was 54, and was reportedly ...
FILE - Reggae singer Peter Anthony Morgan of Morgan Heritage performs on the at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival Saturday, May 4, 2002, in New Orleans. Peter Morgan, lead singer of the ...