Jamaican singer Cocoa Tea, whose celebrated career blurred the divide between roots reggae's righteous convictions and ...
Mention Jamaican music to most Americans and the pop sounds of reggae usually come to mind. But there’s much more—the wonderfully rich harmonies of choral music, hundreds of rarely heard sacred songs ...
Musician, songwriter, and producer Michael Goldwasser has been involved with the international reggae scene for decades, working with artists as diverse as Toots and the Maytals. Jason Mraz, and ...
Like millions of American kids, my introduction to Bob Marley came via his ubiquitous 1984 greatest-hits collection Legend. Colleges were basically required to issue a copy to every incoming freshman ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - For most Jamaican dancehall artists, securing a successful rapper on a song's remix is a hard-won seal of approval. So when Jay-Z, who has never recorded on a reggae track, ...
Three songs from three iconic Jamaican artistes across different generations have been named among Rolling Stone’s 250 greatest songs of the 21st century. Koffee, Gyptian and Sean Paul all made the ...
He began his career during the 1950s folk revival and continued to record — and helped orchestrate “We Are the World” — while pursing his many other artistic and political interests. By Jon Pareles ...