The Grammy-winning daughter of Bob Marley talks Red Bull Studio's new Jamaican women's soccer team documentary and ...

Jackie Jackson, who has died aged 79, was a bass guitarist whose work was the beating heart of many of the best-loved ska, ...

Rockers is, arguably, the finest reggae movie ever made. The 1978 film tells the story of a financially struggling drummer, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (portraying himself), who buys a motorbike with ...

It’s about as unexpected as it gets.

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to 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 ...

Keznamdi's Grammy, Marlon James on the Booker shortlist, Bolt and Seville, and festivals after Hurricane Melissa.

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On August 6 1962, Jamaica declared independence from colonial Britain. The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos, violins, ...

The great James Chambers aka Jimmy Cliff performing in 2012. Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Next time you turn on the reggae station, take a moment to appreciate that you’re now listening to a piece of ...

You could hear it on mainstream radio in 1978, courtesy of The Police, and if you're in Britain, you can hear it on the airwaves today, in the music of Birmingham-born MC Lady Leshurr: reggae's ...

It probably won’t surprise you to learn that, among the cities around the world with the largest volume of search interest in reggae, Kingston, Jamaica, ranks in the top 20, at number 16. But would ...