Come March next year, that bond will be celebrated on a grand scale as Sri Lanka hosts South Asia’s first-ever three-day reggae music festival, ‘One Love 2026 – A Tribute to Bob Marley’, on 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 ...
Sammy Johnson remembers doing chores around the house as a kid while his father was blasting music on the CD player. Through the shuffle of his dad’s music, there was always Stevie Wonder. Reminding ...
February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers ...
Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...
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 ...
Dolly Parton, Lainey WIlson, Uncle Kracker and Toby Keith are four country hitmakers with songs featured in a new mini-documentary that shows how reggae music and country music are both rooted in ...
The two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer had hits with “Wonderful World, Beautiful People,” “You Can Get It if You Really Want” and “I Can See Clearly Now.” By Roy Trakin Jimmy Cliff ...
The first to use the word reggae on a record, he sang in a soulful tone and wrote songs with subtle social commentary, helping bring the sounds of Jamaica to the world. By Ben Sisario Toots Hibbert, ...
San Juan, Puerto Rico — Peter Anthony Morgan, lead singer of the popular reggae band Morgan Heritage that he founded with four siblings, died Sunday at 46, his family said. The family asked for ...