When Stick Figure’s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by ...

The reggae sensation is back with his first solo album in four years. Read the Billboard interview.

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two months removed from his Billboard cover story, Vybz Kartel is effortlessly maintaining his comeback momentum. Of course, the ...

Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival planner Paul Thompson shares why the city jives with Jamaican music and 2026’s ...

The Kingston, Jamaica native's music speaks to his life journey, while prioritizing messages over melody and rhyme schemes ...

Before America met Bob Marley, reggae was merely "novelty music." Criticism in the U.S. focused on how it was "crude, cheap, not to be taken seriously on any level." It had no tune or any "good words ...

Every year since 1926, Black History Month has been honored in February — but did you know that since 2008, February has also been officially designated Reggae Month in Jamaica? The history and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nash, who had been in declining health, rose from pop crooner to reggae star and topped the charts in 1972 with his positive-vibes anthem Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter and performer of the ...