Dancehall music has long been one of Jamaica’s most powerful cultural exports, influencing artists and audiences across ...
Last year, about 4,000 people came to the Jamaica Emancipendence Ole Time Fair in Miramar to celebrate and enjoy the food and musical performances. This year, the fair returns on Saturday, Aug. 3, ...
Sunday, March 1, Lost In Time Festival 2026 transformed Kingston into a living soundtrack of modern reggae music, welcoming over 16,500 attendees across two vibrant days of music and culture at Hope ...
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 ...
Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who’s unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his native Jamaica part of popular culture across the globe, has died at ...
Protoje’s Lost in Time Festival was slated to kick off its third staging — Israel and the United States mounted a coordinated ...
Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who’s unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his native Jamaica part of popular culture across the globe, has died at ...
Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this composer, this trombonist, this conductor, this arranger, this director—we ...
For the last two months or so, the music of The Grateful Dead has been played all over the country since Bob Weir died on Jan. 10.
Vybez Kartel is one of Jamaica's most popular musicians of the 21st century whose music marked a high point in the global exportation of dancehall. On July 31, 2024, Vybez Kartel became a free man ...
Lead singer with the Jamaican “family reggae band” Morgan Heritage, Peter (“Peetah”) Morgan, passed away on February 25. Although the Morgan family did not disclose the cause of death, a close ...